Lesches

Lesches ('''Lescheos''' in Pausanias x. 25. 5) is the reputed author of the '' Little Iliad '', one of the "cyclic poems." According to the usually accepted tradition, he was a native of Pyrrha in Lesbos , and flourished about 660 BC (others place him about 50 years earlier).

The ''Little Iliad'' took up the story of the Homer ic '' Iliad '', and, beginning with the contest between Ajax The Lesser and Odysseus for the arms of Achilles , carried it down to the fall of Troy ( Aristotle , '' Poetics '', 23). According to the epitome in the '' Chrestomathy '' of Proclus , it ended with the admission of the Trojan Horse within the walls of the city. Some ancient authorities ascribe the work to a Lacedaemon ian named Cinaethon, and even to Homer .

REFERENCES

Georg Heinrich Bode , ''Geschichte der hellenischen Dichtkunst'', i.

Karl Otfried Müller and John William Donaldson , ''Hist. of Greek Literature'', i. ch. 6

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker , ''Der epische Cyclus'' (1865-1882)

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