Epic Cycle · c. 7th-6th century BC
Summaries and Fragments
Ἐπικοῦ Κύκλου ἀποσπάσματαThis collection gathers what survives of the Epic Cycle in Evelyn-White's translation: the summaries that Proclus made in his Chrestomathy, which Photius preserved, and the fragments and testimonies quoted by later writers. The poems are the Titanomachy, the Oedipodea, the Thebaid and the Epigoni, then the Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Sack of Ilium, Returns and Telegony. References give the poem (1 to 10, in the order printed) and the paragraph of the translation, not the numbering of the fragments.
Contents · 7 passages
- 1.1–2.3Titanomachy and Oedipodea276 words
- 3.1–4.4Thebaid and Epigoni522 words
- 5.1–38Cypria1739 words
- 6.1–5Aethiopis307 words
- 7.1–26Little Iliad1117 words
- 8.1–8Sack of Ilium575 words
- 9.1–10.2Returns and Telegony670 words
English translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914). Original text: Hugh G. Evelyn-White (transl.), Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica, Loeb Classical Library, London: William Heinemann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914 (English only; the facing Greek is not reproduced).
Text layer: Public domain (translator died 1924); text recovered by OCR from the Internet Archive scan. Introductions, summaries and notes © GreekMythology.com.
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