Welcome to my new series, History Quotes, where I use historical texts to tell the stories of the past. In this first episode, I will read an excerpt from an epic poem, Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, which was likely written in the 4th century AD. In it he tells of the defense of troy by an Ethiopian army and their King Memnon, the demigod son of Eos, goddess of the morning dawn. Image Sources: Troy: Fall of a City – Netflix Trailer Troy Movie Trailer – Warner Bros. Entertainment https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_greek_sanctuaries-en.svg Historical Sources: Quintus Smyrnaeus – The Fall of Troy Book 2 https://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus2.html Pausanias, Description of Greece – 1.42 https://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias1C.html Manetho - https://www.scribd.com/read/369868600/Delphi-Complete-Works-of-Manetho-Illustrated Pliny the Elder – The Natural History – 10.37 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D10%3Achapter%3D37