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The Fall of Troy

by Quintus Smyrnaeus

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Epigraph

I How died for Troy the Queen of the Amazons,
       Penthesileia.
   II How Memnon, Son of the Dawn, for Troy’s sake fell
       in the Battle.
  III How by the shaft of a God laid low was Hero Achilles.
   IV How in the Funeral Games of Achilles heroes contended.
    V How the Arms of Achilles were cause of madness and
       death unto Aias.
   VI How came for the helping of Troy Eurypylus,
       Hercules’ grandson.
  VII How the Son of Achilles was brought to the War
       from the Isle of Scyros.
VIII How Hercules’ Grandson perished in fight with the
       Son of Achilles.
   IX How from his long lone exile returned to the war
       Philoctetes.
    X How Paris was stricken to death, and in vain sought
       help of Oenone.
   XI How the sons of Troy for the last time fought from
       her walls and her towers.
  XII How the Wooden Horse was fashioned, and brought
       into Troy by her people.
XIII How Troy in the night was taken and sacked with fire
       and slaughter.
  XIV How the conquerors sailed from Troy unto judgment
       of tempest and shipwreck.

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