It takes the average reader 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus
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Quintus - for we know him only by his first name - was a poet who lived at Smyrna some four hundred years after Christ. His work, in fourteen books, is a bold and generally underrated attempt in Homer's style to complete the story of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus tells us the stories of Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen; Memnon, leader of the Ethiopians; the death of Achilles; the contest for Achilles' arms between Ajax and Odysseus; the arrival of Philoctetes; and the making of the Wooden Horse. The poem ends with the departure of the Greeks and the great storm which...
Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus is 344 pages long, and a total of 87,376 words.
This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 57 minutes to read Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy aloud.
Quintus Smyrnaeus' Fall of Troy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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