Images of the Trojan War Myth Edited by Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Associate Professor of Classics, Temple University Note: not all images here are universally available outside Temple and other institutions with Perseus site licenses. Last updated 3 December 2000 Events before the War Leda and the Swan/Zeus Abduction of Helen by Theseus Peleus wrestling with Thetis Wedding of Peleus and Thetis The ...

The Fall of Troy By Quintus Smyrnaeus ( Quintus of Smyrna ) Fl. 4th Century A.D. Online Medieval and Classical Library Release #18b Originally written in Greek, sometime about the middle of the 4th Century A.D. Translation by A.S. Way, 1913. The text of this edition is based on that published as QUINTUS SMYRNAEUS: THE FALL OF TROY, (Trans: A.S. Way; Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1913).

At length I saw a lady within call, Stiller than chisel'd marble, standing there; A daughter of the gods, divinely tall, And most divinely fair. Her loveliness with shame and with surprise Froze my swift speech: she turning on my face The starlike sorrows of immortal eyes, Spoke slowly in her place. I had great beauty; ask thou not my name: No one can be more wise than destiny. Many drew swords ...