Arctinus of Miletus
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These poems are lost, but an idea of the first two can be obtained from the Chrestomathy ascribed (probably wrongly) to Proclus the Neo-Platonist of the 5th century AD.
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- "The Amazon Penthesilea arrives to aid the Trojans in war. She is the daughter of Ares and a Thracian by birth. Achilles kills her while she is fighting at her best, and the Trojans bury her. Achilles kills Thersites, who railed at him and reproached him for loving Penthesileia.”
The Aethiopis concluded with the death and burial of
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References
Sources
- Eusebius, Chronicle Olympiad 1.2, 5.1.
- Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 1.131.6.
- Suda s.lem. Arctinus (Alpha, 3960: Ἀρκτῖνος).
Further reading
- Journal of Hellenic Studies, 4 (1883), 305-334.
- T.W. Allen in Classical Quarterly, April 1908, pp. 82ff.