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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
A literary cycle is a group of stories focused on common...
- List of literary cycles
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.
epic, long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds, although the term has also been loosely used to describe novels, such as Leo Tolstoy ’s War and Peace, and motion pictures, such as Sergey Eisenstein ’s Ivan the Terrible. In literary usage, the term encompasses both oral and written compositions.
- Atsuhiko Yoshida
THE EPIC CYCLE was a series of old epic style poems composed between the C8th and 6th B.C. Only fragments of the ten poems survive, one of which describes the Titan war, three the Theban saga, and six the Trojan War. The ten poems are:--1. The War of the Titans or Titanomachy attributed to either Eumelus of Corinth or Arctinus of Miletus C8th B ...
The Epic Cycle Translated by Gregory Nagy Revised by Eugenia Lao Proclus’ Summary of the Cypria, attributed to Stasinus of Cyprus {p.102} 13 Zeus, together with Themis, plans the Trojan 14 War. For Eris, while attending a feast of the gods 15 at the wedding of Peleus, instigates a […]
5 de ago. de 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 ...
