The Cypria: Reconstructing the Lost Prequel to Homer's Iliad by D.M. Smith

The Cypria: Reconstructing the Lost Prequel to Homer's Iliad

D.M. Smith

190 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction classics historical adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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In Classical times, the story of the Trojan War was told in a series of eight epic poems known as the Epic Cycle, of which only the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer survive to the present day. The first poem in the sequence was the Cypria, which describ...

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