VOICES OF WAR: SELF / FAMILY / COMMUNITY
SELECTIONS IN LATIN FROM
QUINTUS OF SMYRNA'S TROJAN WAR EPIC
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Target Audience:
This lesson is
appropriate for third semester / advanced Latin students
Trigger Warning: human trafficking, murder, rape, slavery, violence
Objective:
Students Will Be Able To: analyze the impact of war on women, noncombatants, and family structures through translation of passages from Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica
Nota Bene: This collection of texts may be used to extend discussions in AP core texts (i.e., Vergil's Aeneid).
Essential Questions
- How does war affect family dynamics?
- How does war affect women?
- How does war affect noncombatants?
- How does war affect one's relationship between self and society?
Chapters:
Table of Contents
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Title
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Page
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Ch. 1:
Andromache Laments Watching the Death of Her Husband Hector (Quintus
1.104-115)
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4
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Ch. 2: Tisiphone Inspires the Trojan Women to Fight in Battle (Quintus
1.407-434)
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7
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Ch. 3:
Aurora, the Goddess of the Dawn, Laments the Death of her Son Memnon at the
Hands of Achilles (Quintus 2.592-621)
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10
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Ch. 4:
Phoenix Mourns the Loss of His Foster Son, Achilles (Quintus 3.461-489)
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13
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Ch. 5: The
War Bride Briseis Laments the Death of Her Captor / Husband Achilles
(Quintus3.550-576):
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17
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Ch. 6:
The Goddess Calliope Comforts Thetis on the Loss of Her Son (Quintus
3.631-665)
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20
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Ch. 7: The
War Bride Tecmessa, on the Suicide of Her Warrior Ajax (Quintus 5.519-556)
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23
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Ch. 8:
Diadamia’s Lament to Her Son Neoptolemus, On the Day of His Departure
(Quintus7.261-281; 7.329-339)
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28
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Ch. 9:
Phoenix, On Seeing The Son of Achilles for the First Time (Quintus 7.639-666)
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32
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Ch. 10:
The War Bride Briseis, Seeing the Son of Her Captor / Husband Achilles
(Quintus 7.722-726):
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36
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Ch. 11: The
Deified Ganymede, Unable to Endure the Sight of Troy’s Ruin, Begs Jupiter for
Mercy (Quintus 8.427-445)
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38
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Ch. 12:
Neoptolemus At The Tomb of the Father He Never Met (Quintus 9.46-60)
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41
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Ch. 13:
Deiphobus Rallies the Remaining Trojans to Fight for their Homes (Quintus
9.80-110)
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44
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Ch. 14:
Oenone to Paris, Unable to Forgive His Infidelity on His Deathbed (Quintus
10.306-331)
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49
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Ch. 15:
Oenone, on the Loss of Her Estranged Husband Paris (Quintus 10.424-431)
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52
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Ch. 16:
Trojan Queen Hecuba to Her Son Paris, On His Deathbed (Quintus 10.373-387)
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54
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Ch. 17:
Helen to Her Husband Paris, On His Deathbed (Quintus 10.392-405)
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57
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Ch. 18:
Andromache Begs for Death Instead of Slavery (Quintus 13.266-286)
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60
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Ch. 19:
King Priam to Neoptolemus, At His Death (Quintus 13.226-236)
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63
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Ch. 20:
Queen Hecuba to Her Daughter Polyxena, Before Her Execution (Quintus
14.288-300)
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65
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Glossary
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68
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