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The Poems of the Epic Cycle
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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In an article published in the last volume of this Journal I endeavoured to show (1) that the extant fragments of the ‘chrestomathy’ of Proclus represent the Trojan part of the ‘Epic Cycle’ more completely than has been maintained by eminent scholars; and (2) that, on the other hand, they are less trustworthy than they appear to be as a source of knowledge of the so-called ‘Cyclic’ poems. That is to say, the notion of a considerable lacuna in Proclus' abstract is not borne out by a more thorough examination of the only extant manuscript. But that abstract does not always give a full or accurate account of the several poems from which the Epic Cycle was made up. And this incompleteness is found (1) when two of the poems dealt with the same part of the story—in which case the abstract leaves out one of the two versions altogether;—and also (2) when the incidents of a poem are not in harmony with the accepted mythological narrative. In the latter case the abstract gives the version which was recognised as historically true. We have, in short, an account, not of the original poems, but of so much of their contents as served for a continuous and complete history of the world.
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page 8 note 1 This is the meaning of the words 
i.c. ‘counting Iphigenia and Iphianassa.’ With this punctuation it is unnecessary to emend as Elmsley proposed (reading δ′ as διαφόρους, instead of the numeral τέσσαρας).
page 12 note 1 Welcker, , Ep. Cycl. ii. p. 524Google Scholar; Jahn, Bilderchroniken, Tab. iii. D′.
page 12 note 2 The quotation of eight lines assigned by Kinkel to the Aethiopis (fr. 3 in his edition), seems to me to belong to the 
; see p. 28.
page 15 note 1 It will be remembered here that the twenty-fourth book of the Odyssey is very commonly thought to be later than the bulk of the poem. But the discrepancy noticed in the text (with regard to the body of Achilles) seems to show that it is at least older than the Aethiopis.
page 16 note 1 Strabo (xii. 24, p. 552) speaks as if it were an established fact that the Amazons took no part in the Trojan war. He was probably unacquainted with the poems of Aretinus: see the remarks on p, 36.
page 16 note 2 
(Alc. fr. 49).
page 18 note 1 Robert, C. (Bild und Lied, p. 226Google Scholar) points out that the authority of Hellanicus tells strongly against Lesches. Had there been an old tradition of the Lesbian origin of the Little Iliad, Hellanicus as a Lesbian would probably have given it his support. It is worth notice that the poem is ascribed to authors belonging to all the great divisions of the Hellenic race.
page 19 note 1 We have no express statement as to the subject of the Λάκαιναι, but there is no room for doubt. The play is evidently named from the chorus, which consisted of the Spartan maidens in the service of Helen.
page 27 note 1 In the bronze figure of the Trojan Horse on the Acropolis of Athens, the heroes represented as peeping out of it were Menestheus, Teucer (who expresses the Athenian claim to Salamis), and the two sons of Theseus (Paus. i. 23, 10).
page 30 note 1 Robert, C., Bild und Lied, p. 193.Google Scholar
page 31 note 1 Pausanias never mentions Arctinus, and seems not to have known of either the Aethiopis or the Iliupersis. He refers to Arctinus' version of the death of Priam, and of Astyanax (x. 25, 9), simply as the account from which Lesches differed. Similarly, when Pausanias (x. 27, 1) says that Coroebus was killed 
by Neoptolemus, but according to Lesches by Diomede, the ‘common account’ doubtless is that of the Iliupersis, of which Neoptolemus was the hero.
page 32 note 1 The digression about Podaleirius and Machaon (p. 28) would be part of such a narrative. The style of the lines seems to favour this hypothesis.
page 34 note 1 Arctinus certainly mentioned the true Palladium, probably in connexion with, the flight of Aeneas; but the rest of the notice may possibly be due, as in some instances given by Robert, C. (Bild und Lied, p. 231)Google Scholar, not to the poet himself, but to commentators who sought to harmonise his account with the Little Iliad.
page 35 note 1 It is an objection to this inference that Aristarchus—if we may argue from the silence of the Venetian scholia—does not seem to have known of any post-Homeric account except that of the Little Iliad. Possibly the account of the scholia on Od. 5. 310 is a mere misunderstanding of Aristarchus; the remark that Homer would have told the story in such and such a way being twisted into a positive statement that that was the true account.
page 36 note 1 Eustathius (p. 1796, 53) quotes ‘the author of the νάστοι, a Colophonian,’ for the statement that in the end Telemachus married Circe, and Telegonus Penelope. It has been thought that this refers to another poem on the subject of the ‘returns,’ by a Colophonian poet. There is so much about Colophon, however, in the cyclić Nosti that it seems more natural to suppose that the author was thought by some authorities to be a Colophonian.
page 37 note 1 The MS. gives 
where Τειρεσίαν must be a false reading for Κάλχαντα. The name Τειρεσίας must have occurred in the poem, and been put for Calchas in this place by mistake—perhaps by the grammarian who made the summary in Proclus.
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