Trojan cycle

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collection of ancient Greek epic poems lost epic cycle

The Trojan cycle is a collection of ancient Greek epic poems that narrate the full saga of the Trojan War and its aftermath beyond what is told in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Trojan Cycle	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	collection of ancient Greek epic poems ⓘ lost epic cycle ⓘ
associatedWithHero	Achilles ⓘ Aeneas ⓘ Agamemnon ⓘ Menelaus ⓘ Odysseus ⓘ
associatedWithLocation	Achaean Greece ⓘ Troy ⓘ
composedIn	Archaic Greece ⓘ
coversMyth	judgment of Paris ⓘ surface form: Judgment of Paris Trojan Horse ⓘ abduction of Helen ⓘ homecomings of the Atreidae ⓘ sack of Troy ⓘ
culturalContext	Ancient Greek literature ⓘ
extendsBeyond	Homer's Iliad ⓘ Homer's Odyssey ⓘ
genre	epic poetry ⓘ
includesWork	Aethiopis ⓘ Cypria ⓘ Iliou Persis ⓘ Little Iliad ⓘ Nostoi (Returns) ⓘ surface form: Nostoi Telegony ⓘ
influenced	Roman literature ⓘ later Greek tragedy ⓘ
knownFrom	Proclus' Chrestomathy ⓘ later summaries and quotations ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryForm	dactylic hexameter (probable) ⓘ
mythologicalFramework	Greek mythology ⓘ
narrativeFocus	Trojan War ⓘ aftermath of the Trojan War ⓘ
prequelTo	Homer's Iliad ⓘ
relatedCycle	Theban cycle ⓘ
sequelTo	Homer's Iliad ⓘ Homer's Odyssey ⓘ
status	mostly lost ⓘ
subject	events during the Trojan War ⓘ events leading up to the Trojan War ⓘ Trojan War ⓘ surface form: fall of Troy later adventures of Odysseus' son Telegonus ⓘ returns of the Greek heroes ⓘ
tradition	Epic Cycle ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

judgment of Paris → associatedWith → Trojan cycle ⓘ

subject surface form: Judgment of Paris

Bibliotheca → coversTopic → Trojan cycle ⓘ

Helen of Troy → mythicCycle → Trojan cycle ⓘ

this entity surface form: Trojan Cycle

Athena → mythologicalCycle → Trojan cycle ⓘ

Thersander → mythologicalCycle → Trojan cycle ⓘ