Book of Donmon Teith

The poems of the Epic Cycle are assumed to be the reworking of myths and narratives which had their roots in an oral tradition predating that of many of the myt

Presents a challenge to Homer's authority on the history and legends of the Trojan War, placing the Iliad and Odyssey in the larger context of the entire body o

West presents all the source material and provides the first comprehensive commentary on the lost Troy epics, making full use of iconographic as well as literar

Benjamin Sammons argues that the poems of the so-called 'Epic Cycle' were constructed using the same traditional devices as the Homeric epics. From this insight

Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of f