Greek Epic Cycle

by Malcolm Davies, Malcolm Davies, Cleo Qian

Book Overview

In the wake of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey", poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics which covered other parts of the Trojan War story or different areas of Greek mythology. Quotations from them and other testimonies as to their content survive in later authors and the evidence thus assembled allows us to reconstruct something of the poems' contents. Collectively these poems came to be known by Hellenistic scholars in Alexandria...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853990396
• ISBN13: 9781853990397
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"