"A vivid and entertaining story in its own right, the Trojan Epic is also particularly significant for what it reveals about its sources - the much older, now lost Greek epics about the Trojan War known collectively as the Epic Cycle. Written during the Homeric era, these poems …
"A vivid and entertaining story in its own right, the Trojan Epic is also particularly significant for what it reveals about its sources - the much older, now lost Greek epics about the Trojan War known collectively as the Epic Cycle. Written during the Homeric era, these poems …
Composed in the third century A.D., the Trojan Epic is the earliest surviving literary evidence for many of the traditions of the Trojan War passed down from ancient Greece. Also known as the Posthomerica, or "sequel to Homer," the Trojan Epic chronicles the course of the war af…