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The work guides readers through fragments and testimonia by outlining each poem’s overall plan, arrangement of material, and character. Prolegomena address the Cycle’s nature and formation, Proclus’ Troy summaries, authorship attributions, echoes in early art and literature, and developments from the Hellenistic into the early Roman periods.","THE EPIC CYCLE  \n# The Epic Cycle\n\nA Commentary on the Lost Troy Epics  \nM.L.WEST  \nOXFORD  \nUNIVERSITY PRBSS  \nGreat Clarendon Street,Oxford,OX26DP,United Kingdom  \nOxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research,scholarship,and education by publishing worldwide.Oxford is a registered trade mark ofOxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \n◎M.L.West 2013  \nThe moral rights of the author have been assertedFirst published 2013  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored ina retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without theprior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,or as expressly permittedby law,by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographicsrights organization.Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of theabove should be sent to the Rights Department,Oxford University Press,at theaddress above  \nYou must not circulate this work in any other formand you must impose this same condition on any acquirer  \nPublished in the United States of America by Oxford University Press198 Madison Avenue,New York,NY10016,United States of America  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataData available  \nISBN 978-0-19-966225-8  \nLinks to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith andfor information only.Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materialscontained in any third party website referenced in this work.  \n## Preface\n\nThe importance of the Epic Cycle in relation to the Iliad and Odysseyon the one hand,and on the other to lyric poetry,tragedy,andmythography,can hardly be overstated.Yet it has never been theobject of a thorough commentary,and not often of a compre-hensive study.Despite the fact that it is mostly lost,there is plenty tobe said.  \nMy aim is not only to provide commentary on individual frag-ments and testimonia but to reconstruct the connections betweenthem,so far as may be possible,and to build up a picture of theplan and course of each poem,its disposition of material,and itsoverall character.The Prolegomena(given this grand name to avoidconfusion in cross-reference with the introductions to the individualepics)address general issues,including the nature and formationof the Epic Cycle,the status of the summaries of the Troy epicspreserved under the name of Proclus,the validity of the ascriptionsto particular poets,the reflexes of the Cycle in early art and literature,and its fortunes in and after the Hellenistic period.I hope tobring some clarification into the big picture as well as on mattersof detail.  \nIt has become increasingly common in works of classical scholar-ship to provide translations of passages quoted in the ancientlanguages.I have done this where it could be done conveniently,especially in the Prolegomena,but it is not practicable in a work suchas a commentary to translate every piece of Greek or Latin that mayappear.For the actual epic fragments and testimonia the reader whowants translations may turn to my Loeb edition of 2003.But it is afact of life that in order to follow serious philological discussion,inany field,acquaintance with the relevant language or languages is asine qua non.  \nIn the preface to his Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta of 1988Malcolm Davies announced his imminent publication of a commen-tary:'fragmenta epica iam illustravi commentariis ditissimis quaemox publici iuris facere me posse spero'.I am grateful to Dr Daviesfor confirming that this work never in fact got very far and thatwhile he is now working on the Theban epics,he would not be  \n## Preface\n\ninconvenienced by my proceeding with my own commentary on theTrojan ones.  \nI should also like to thank the staff of Oxford University Press forthe cheerful efficiency and helpfulness that they have(as usual)shown throughout the book's production process.It is a pleasure towork with them.  \nM.L.W.  \nOxford  \n20","cbCaid8Wn7tuopBJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaid8Wn7tuopBJ","pdf",20743957,14,1,346,"English","en",105,"# Preface\n# Abbreviations\n# Prolegomena\n## What was the Epic Cycle?\n## Proclus' Chrestomatheias Eklogai and Apollodorus' Bibliotheke\n## The formation of the Cycle\n## Ascriptions\n## Reflexes in archaic and classical art and literature\n## The Cycle in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods\n## Reconstructing the poems\n# Commentaries\n## Cypria\n## Aethiopis\n## Little Iliad\n## Iliou Persis\n## Nostoi\n## Telegony\n## Excursus: The Death of Odysseus\n# Bibliography\n# Index of Greek Words and Forms\n# Index of Passages\n# General Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the Prolegomena in this 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