71- Posthomerica Part I: Allies, Allies Everywhere!

71- Posthomerica Part I: Allies, Allies Everywhere!

Quintus Smyrnaeus may have been the least favourite child according to Autocrat lore, but he did give us a new source called the Posthomerica- a.k.a. the Fall of Troy- which takes us all the way to the end of the Trojan War! Our first two books of the Posthomerica see two different attempts by outside armies to rescue Troy- and they both go the same way...


Sources for this episode:

  • Quintus Smyrnaeus (1934), The Fall of Troy. Translated by A. S. Way. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd.
  • Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Terme River (online) (Accessed 02/04/2025).

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