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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.
- List of literary cycles
The Epic Cycle centering on the Trojan War; The Ulster...
- List of literary cycles
Il ciclo epico raccoglie tutti i cicli di poemi epici (quasi completamente perduti, tranne quelli omerici ed esiodei, e pochi frammenti di alcuni altri) composti in lingua greca, dai cosiddetti poeti ciclici, e databili tra l' VIII e il VI secolo a.C., ma basati su una tradizione orale molto più antica. Il nome "ciclo epico" è da attribuire a ...
Epic Cycle refers to an ancient gathering of thematically linked epics of the Archaic Age on the origins of the gods, the Theban Wars, and the Trojan War. The poems are lost, with few fragments remaining; testimony for their contents and authors.
The Iliupersis (Greek: Ἰλίου πέρσις, Iliou persis, "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.
Review by. Lyndsay Coo, University of Bristol. l.coo@bristol.ac.uk. Preview. Few texts from antiquity can be so simultaneously frustrating, intriguing and important as the remains of the Greek Epic Cycle. The role of these poems in shaping Titanomachic, Theban and Trojan myth will have been profound and yet only a handful of verbatim fragments ...
5 ago 2015 · Kyklos: tracing a metaphor. The term kyklos is notorious for its ambiguity. The word encompasses various interpretations, most of them metaphorical: apart from the proper sense ‘circle’, it can designate any circular body like a wheel, a trencher, a place of an assembly or the people standing in a ring, the vault of the sky, the orb or disk of a celestial body, the wall around a city, a ...
