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The Epic Cycle (Continued from page 74)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

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I will next briefly enumerate the evidence for the separate poems, beginning with the Trojan series.

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page 81 note 1 Ante, p. 67. The Cypria owe their position in Suidas' list of the minor Homeric works to this circumstance (Suid. “Oμηρoς:. . . ‘Eπιθαλμια, Kκλoς,”Υμνoι, Kπια).

page 81 note 2 Δημoδμας γρ ‘Aλικαρνασσεὺς ἣ Mιλσιoς νNO. VI. VOL. II.

τῲ περ 'Aλικαρνασσo*** Kὑπρια 'Aλικασσως δ’ αὐτε***να φησι πoιματα. D.'s point was that the Cypria were not Cyprian but the work of a native of Halicarnassus. The name of his candidate has fallen out. He can hardly have run Panyasis.

page 82 note 1 E.g. B 557, 8, 563, 568,609, 783, 798,848, 855, 866.

page 82 note 2 Bethe also (pp. 613, 614) ascribes the change to the working of Homer, but will have it that the Poems affected the abstract, not the actual Cypria.

page 82 note 3 E.g. the Parian marble: Hippostratus who dates a Cynaethus (F.H.G. iv. 432): the unfortunately mutilated testimony of Demodamas, p. 17 n.

page 83 note 1 Suidas: Φανας ἢ Φαινας, ‘Eρσιoς, ϕιλóσoς μαθηΥς: see F. H. G. ii. 298.

page 86 note 1 More than that of the Odyssey (504??^), less than that of the Iliad (653⅞).

page 86 note 2 Fragmentary stichometrical details of some of the minor poems are given on the Tabula Borgiaca (Kaibel p. 4).

page 87 note 1 'Aρετ would not be predicated of a handbook; and κoλoντθα is a necessary property of one.

page 87 note 2 Cf. his distinction between the Homeric and Orphic Hymns, ix. 30. 12.

page 88 note 1 The Suidean aera, ol. ν′ puts him a hundred years later, but there is a variant γδóη for the numeral. This poem was on the same scale as those of Arctinus and Lesches, βιβλα γ′(Suid.).