Epic Cycle

... ted whether the quarrel scene in this “micro-Iliad” was modeled on a quarrel-scene in the Cypria, which was part of the epic Cycle. But the quarrel scenes of the Iliad, the Cypria, an ... Continue reading

... the Iliad, the telos or ‘fulfillment’ of the plot is being realized only in the form of a prophecy—by contrast with the epic Cycle, where the conquest of Troy is the ultimate telos. T ... Continue reading

... e it is important to compare what was narrated in the Cypria, which as an epic belonging to a set of epics known as the epic Cycle. In the Cypria of the epic Cycle as also in the Ilia ... Continue reading

... ine singular kuklos means ‘chariot wheels’. The metaphorical use of kuklos ‘cycle, chariot wheel’ with reference to the epic Cycle as the sum total of Homeric poetry is relevant to th ... Continue reading

Seeing the lightning sent by Zeus, I.08.076, the Achaean chieftains are now thunderstruck with fear, I.08.076–077. Mentioned by name at I.08.078–079 as those chieftains who now ret ... Continue reading

... s other epic narrative in a song of Pindar, Pythian 6.28–42. The death of Antilokhos was also narrated in a part of the epic Cycle, the Aithiopis, attributed to Arctinus of Miletus, a ... Continue reading

... ow get killed by Memnon. This epic moment, which is in the future for the Iliad, is evidently narrated in a part of the epic Cycle, the Aithiopis, attributed to Arctinus of Miletus, a ... Continue reading

... ressed epic narrative, formulated here as the Plan of Zeus, resemble what we see in the surviving plot-summaries of the epic Cycle. The narrative as narrated here by the god Zeus hims ... Continue reading

... riant tradition is reported about this captive woman: it comes from the epic known as the Cypria, which was part of the epic Cycle. In the Cypria, as we are told by the Scholia T here ... Continue reading

... s managed to escape before the city was completely destroyed. The story was told in an Ionian epic that belonged to the epic Cycle, and the name of this epic was the Iliou Persis ‘Des ... Continue reading

... g of homecoming’. Such a song is evidently epic, as we see for example in the title Nostoi ‘Songs of Homecoming’ in the epic Cycle. See also the comment on O.01.153–155. At O.01.325, ... Continue reading

Here is the first mention of Antilokhos, son of Nestor, in the Odyssey. On the importance of this figure in the Iliad, see I.08.078–117 / anchor comment on: Nestor’s entanglement a ... Continue reading