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According to some ancient authorities, 'Stasinus' of Cyprus, a semi-legendary early Greek poet, was the author of the ''Cypria'', in eleven books, one of the poems belonging to the Epic Cycle.
According to Photius others ascribed it to Hegesias (or Hegesinus) of Salamis or elsewhere even to Homer himself, who was said to have written it on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to Stasinus. At Halicarnassus, according to an inscription found in 1995 they ascribed it to a local poet, a "Kyprias".[1]
Main articles: Cypria
The ''Cypria'', presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded, and thus formed a kind of introduction to the ''Iliad''. It contained an account of the judgement of Paris, the rape of Helen, the abandonment of Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos, the landing of the Achaeans on the coast of Asia Minor, and the first engagement before Troy.
It is possible that the "Trojan Battle Order" (the list of Trojans and their allies, ''Iliad'' 2.816-876, which formed an appendix to the "Catalogue of Ships") is abridged from that in the ''Cypria'', which was known to contain a list of the Trojan allies. Proclus, in his ''Chrestomathia'', gave an outline of the poem (preserved in Photius, cod. 239).
Plato puts quotes from Stasinos' works in the mouth of Socrates, in his dialogue ''Euthyphro''.
1. Jonathan Burgess, "Kyprias, the "Kypria", and Multiformity" ''Phoenix'' '56'.3/4 (Autumn 2002), pp. 234-245.
★ FG Welcker, ''Der epische Cyclus'' (1862)
★ DB Monro, Appendix to his edition of ''Odyssey'', xiii.-xxiv. (1901)
★ Thomas W Allen, "The Epic Cycle," in ''Classical Quarterly'' (Jan. 1908, sqq.)
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According to Photius others ascribed it to Hegesias (or Hegesinus) of Salamis or elsewhere even to Homer himself, who was said to have written it on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to Stasinus. At Halicarnassus, according to an inscription found in 1995 they ascribed it to a local poet, a "Kyprias".[1]
Main articles: Cypria
The ''Cypria'', presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded, and thus formed a kind of introduction to the ''Iliad''. It contained an account of the judgement of Paris, the rape of Helen, the abandonment of Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos, the landing of the Achaeans on the coast of Asia Minor, and the first engagement before Troy.
It is possible that the "Trojan Battle Order" (the list of Trojans and their allies, ''Iliad'' 2.816-876, which formed an appendix to the "Catalogue of Ships") is abridged from that in the ''Cypria'', which was known to contain a list of the Trojan allies. Proclus, in his ''Chrestomathia'', gave an outline of the poem (preserved in Photius, cod. 239).
Plato puts quotes from Stasinos' works in the mouth of Socrates, in his dialogue ''Euthyphro''.
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Notes
1. Jonathan Burgess, "Kyprias, the "Kypria", and Multiformity" ''Phoenix'' '56'.3/4 (Autumn 2002), pp. 234-245.
Authorities
★ FG Welcker, ''Der epische Cyclus'' (1862)
★ DB Monro, Appendix to his edition of ''Odyssey'', xiii.-xxiv. (1901)
★ Thomas W Allen, "The Epic Cycle," in ''Classical Quarterly'' (Jan. 1908, sqq.)
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