"Quintus of Smyrna (Greek Κόιντος Σμυρναίος) was a Greek epic poet who lived in the third and fourth centuries.
There are few biographical data on Fifth Smyrna. He composed, around the third or fourth centuries AD, the Posthoméricas poem in fourteen books aimed at monitoring the Trojan epic cycle where you left Homer and become natural continuation of the Iliad.
The Posthoméricas start with the death and funeral of Hector (time when just the Iliad) and tells all subsequent events until the end of the Trojan War, not picked up by Homer, but well known from other sources: death of Achilles madness of Ajax or Ajax, Philoctetes and Neoptolemus intervention, ruse of the wooden horse, conquering the city and sharing of prisoners. The work concludes with the return of the Greeks to their homelands, the point at which Posthoméricas link to other great Homeric poem, the Odyssey heroes.
Although the main model is, as expected, Homer, Smyrna Quinto is based on many sources to compose his story: Apollonius of Rhodes, Sophocles, Euripides, etc. It is not entirely clear influence of Virgil, despite the great similarities between Posthoméricas and the Aeneid. Gem for all concerned by the mythic cycle of the Trojan War, the play has known various translations into Spanish; Francisco Sanchez even the Rubbishes Brocense introduced the partial translations in two of his works: Emblems and Silvas ".