Stasinus Of Cyprus

Others ascribed it to Hegesias (or Hegesinus) Of Salamis or even to Homer himself, who was said to have written it on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to Stasinus.

The ''Cypria'', presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded, and thus formed a kind of introduction to the '' Iliad ''. It contained an account of the Judgement of Paris , the Rape of Helen , the abandonment of Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos , the landing of the Achaeans on the coast of Asia Minor , and the first engagement before Troy .

It is probable that the list of the Trojans and their allies ('' Iliad '', ii.816-876), which formed an appendix to the catalogue of the Greek ships, is abridged from that in the ''Cypria'', which was known to contain a list of the Trojan allies. Proclus , in his ''Chrestomathia'', gave an outline of the poem (preserved in Photius , cod. 239).

Authorities

FG Welcker , ''Der epische Cyclus'' (1862)

DB Monro , Appendix to his edition of '' Odyssey '', xiii.-xxiv. (1901)

Thomas W Allen, "The Epic Cycle," in ''Classical Quarterly'' (Jan. 1908, sqq.)

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