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The Epic Cycle (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized: Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony.
The Nostoi (Greek: Νόστοι Nóstoi, sg. nostos lit. ' return home '), also known as Returns or Returns of the Greeks, is a lost epic poem of ancient Greek literature.A part of the Epic Cycle, also known as Trojan cycle, it narrated the stories of the Achaean heroes returning to Greece after the end of the Trojan War.
The Iliad is often regarded as the first substantial piece of European literature and is a central part of the Epic Cycle. [ 2 ] Set towards the end of the Trojan War , a ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states, the poem depicts significant events in the war's final weeks.
In the five book epic Aethiopis, which was part of the Epic Cycle (or Cycle of Troy) on the Trojan War, the coming to Troy of Penthesilea and Memnon was described in detail. [2] The Aethiopis was published in the 8th century BC and is attributed to Arctinus of Miletus .
The story of the Telegony comes chronologically after that of the Odyssey and is the final episode in the Epic Cycle. The poem was sometimes attributed in antiquity to Cinaethon of Sparta (8th century BC), but in one source it is said to have been stolen from Musaeus by Eugammon of Cyrene (6th century BC) [ 2 ] (see Cyclic poets ).
Drinking bowl with scenes from the Aethiopis epic, Attic, c. 540 BC. The Aithiopis (/ iː ˈ θ aɪ ə p ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Αἰθιοπίς, romanized: Aithiopís), also spelled Aethiopis, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse.
The Iliupersis (Greek: Ἰλίου πέρσις, Ilíou pérsis, lit. ' Sack of Ilium '), also known as The Sack of Troy, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature.It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the Trojan cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse.
The Reynard cycle, which centers on the fabular fox Reynard; Der Ring des Nibelungen (or the "Ring cycle"), which centers on the Ring and the Norse pantheon; The voyages of Sinbad the sailor, the hero of a cycle of tales of monsters, magical places, and supernatural phenomena met on his successive voyages. The Epic Cycle centering on the Trojan War