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This article examines the simile which concludes the scene of Achilles’ death in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica (3.175–7), likening the falling Achilles to a mountain, alongside its Homeric precedent to argue that Quintus redeploys a vexed image from the Iliad to underscore dissonance as a strength of the comparative technique in both poems.
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