Epic poet and grammarian of the second half of the 4th century. Quintus began to write poetry as a youth in Smyrna. His most important work is the Posthomerica, an epic in fourteen books and 8,800 hexameters which continues the story of the Trojan War after the end of the Iliad, covering the gap between that point and the beginning of the Odyssey. It is the oldest surviving work dealing with that period.