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Zusatztext helpful in contextualizing the fragments, and in offering plausible over-all reconstructions of the narratives Informationen zum Autor The late Martin West was a Fellow and Praelector at University College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1974, then Professor of Greek at Bedford and Royal Holloway Colleges London till 1991, and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College Oxford from 1991 to 2004. Klappentext West presents all the source material and provides the first comprehensive commentary on the lost Troy epics, making full use of iconographic as well as literary evidence. Discussing the individual fragments and testimonia, he endeavours to reconstruct the connections between them and to build up a picture of the plan and course of each poem. Zusammenfassung West presents all the source material and provides the first comprehensive commentary on the lost Troy epics, making full use of iconographic as well as literary evidence. Discussing the individual fragments and testimonia, he endeavours to reconstruct the connections between them and to build up a picture of the plan and course of each poem. PREFACE ; ABBREVIATIONS ; PROLEGOMENA ; 1. What was the Epic Cycle? ; 2. Proclus Chrestomatheias Eklogai and Apollodorus Bibliotheke ; 3. The formation of the Cycle ; 4. Ascriptions ; 5. Reflexes in Archaic and Classical art and literature ; 6. The Cycle in the Hellenistic and early Roman periods ; 7. Reconstructing the poems ; COMMENTARIES ; 1. Cypria ; 2. Aethiopis ; 3. Little Iliad ; 4. Iliou Persis ; 5. Nostoi ; 6. Telegony ; EXCURSUS: THE DEATH OF ODYSSEUS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEXES
