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- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Introduction
- Homeric Epic in Performance
- Homeric Poetics
- Homer in a World of Song
- Epic Traditions
- Mythic Background
- The Language of Homer
- From Song to Text
- Key Topics
- Achilles
- Ancient Near Eastern Epic
- Batrakhomuomakhia (The Battle of Frogs and Mice)
- Catalogues
- Dreams
- Early Editions
- Ekphrasis
- Epic Cycle
- Epithets
- Formula
- Gods and Goddesses
- Hesiod and Homer
- Home
- Homer and Indo-European Myth
- Homer and the Alphabet
- Homeric Body and Mind
- Homeric Dialects
- Homeric Humor
- The Homeric Hymns
- Homeric Scholia
- Hospitality
- The Iliad: An Overview
- Immanence
- Kleos
- Lament
- Margites
- Meter
- Narrative
- Odysseus
- The Odyssey: An Overview
- Panathenaia
- Panhellenism
- Pisistratus
- Rhapsodes and the Homēridai
- Ring Composition
- Similes
- Speech
- Trojan Horse
- Troy
- Type Scene
- Part II Homeric World
- Part III Homer in the World
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Epic Cycle
from Key Topics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- The Cambridge Guide to Homer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- General Introduction
- Part I Homeric Song and Text
- Introduction
- Homeric Epic in Performance
- Homeric Poetics
- Homer in a World of Song
- Epic Traditions
- Mythic Background
- The Language of Homer
- From Song to Text
- Key Topics
- Achilles
- Ancient Near Eastern Epic
- Batrakhomuomakhia (The Battle of Frogs and Mice)
- Catalogues
- Dreams
- Early Editions
- Ekphrasis
- Epic Cycle
- Epithets
- Formula
- Gods and Goddesses
- Hesiod and Homer
- Home
- Homer and Indo-European Myth
- Homer and the Alphabet
- Homeric Body and Mind
- Homeric Dialects
- Homeric Humor
- The Homeric Hymns
- Homeric Scholia
- Hospitality
- The Iliad: An Overview
- Immanence
- Kleos
- Lament
- Margites
- Meter
- Narrative
- Odysseus
- The Odyssey: An Overview
- Panathenaia
- Panhellenism
- Pisistratus
- Rhapsodes and the Homēridai
- Ring Composition
- Similes
- Speech
- Trojan Horse
- Troy
- Type Scene
- Part II Homeric World
- Part III Homer in the World
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
The Epic Cycle often refers to a series of epics which allegedly told the whole story of the Trojan War. We have only fragments and summaries of these poems and the manner in which they relate to our Iliad and Odyssey is an issue of much debate.
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- The Cambridge Guide to Homer , pp. 118 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020