Trojan War cycle

The Trojan War cycle, also widely known as the Epic Cycle, was a collection of eight Ancient Greek epic poems that related the history of the Trojan War. The phrase "Epic Cycle" is sometimes used of a longer cycle that included the Titanomachy, the Theban Cycle, and the Trojan cycle, but is widely used to refer to just the Trojan cycle.

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Ancient Greek - Epic poem - Trojan War - Titanomachy - Theban Cycle

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All but two of the epics are lost. They were written in dactylic hexameter verse. In modern scholarship the study of the historical and literary relationship between the two Homeric epics and the rest of the cycle is called Neoanalysis.

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Dactylic hexameter - Neoanalysis

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