"In the wake of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, poets of the seventh and sixth centuries BC composed epics which covered other parts of the Trojan War story or diffe

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

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

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