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THE AETHIOPIS WAS an epic poem in five books whose subject was the death of Achilles. Its narrative began immediately after the death of Hector and included two major movements. The first featured a newly arrived Trojan ally, the Amazon princess Penthesileia, who routed the Achaeans but fell at the hands of Achilles. The second featured the Ethiopian prince Memnon, also a newly arrived Trojan ally, who similarly perished, after brief success, at the hands of Achilles. Each of these movements had its own sequel or pendant. Appended to the first was the story of how Achilles was mocked by Thersites, murdered him, and traveled to Lesbos to be purified of blood-guilt; and appended to the second was the story of how Achilles stormed the walls of Troy and died at the hands of Paris and Apollo, followed by an account of his funeral and the argument over his arms....

Oxford University Press

Benjamin Sammons

Oxford Scholarship Online

2017

Title: Introduction

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THE AETHIOPIS WAS an epic poem in five books whose subject was the death of Achilles.

Its narrative began immediately after the death of Hector and included two major movements.

The first featured a newly arrived Trojan ally, the Amazon princess Penthesileia, who routed the Achaeans but fell at the hands of Achilles.

The second featured the Ethiopian prince Memnon, also a newly arrived Trojan ally, who similarly perished, after brief success, at the hands of Achilles.

Each of these movements had its own sequel or pendant.

Appended to the first was the story of how Achilles was mocked by Thersites, murdered him, and traveled to Lesbos to be purified of blood-guilt; and appended to the second was the story of how Achilles stormed the walls of Troy and died at the hands of Paris and Apollo, followed by an account of his funeral and the argument over his arms.

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