Quintus of Smyrna

Passages from The Fall of Troy suggest Quintus was a native of Asia Minor who wrote toward the end of the third century CE. He describes himself as a youthful shepherd, and he may well have been a teacher with students for ‘sheep.’ His invocation of the Muses shows that Quintus viewed himself as the ambitious successor of Homer, Hesiod, and other poets whose literary challenges and accomplishments were enormous.