Smyrnaeus Quintus
Autor/a de Posthomerica
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Smyrnaeus Quintus
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 0375 floruit
- Data de defunció
- 0375 floruit
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Roman Empire
- Professions
- poet
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
The Trojan War (1)
Western Canon (1)
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 6
- Membres
- 404
- Popularitat
- #60,140
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 20
- Llengües
- 3
Writing a millennium after the probable date of the first time The Iliad was first written down, Quintus decided to fill in the gap between funeral for Hector and the fall of the Troy by salvaging what was left of the little epics to complete the coverage of the war. Quintus’ quality is nothing compared to Homer, but obviously he knows it and doesn’t try to be Homer just to complete the war. Quintus achieves his goal and frankly the rating of the book is based on his decision to even write the book, what could have improved the book is if the publishers of this edition would have had either footnotes or endnotes but just as a general reader it doesn’t really ruin things it just would have enhanced it.
The Fall of Troy finishes the war that ancient western world obsessed about for a millennium and gives readers today a view of how it ended how it ended.… (més)