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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 447 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Miletus, one of the earliest poets of See also:Greece and contributors to the epic See also:cycle. He flourished probably about 744 B.C. (01. 7). His poems are lost, but an See also:idea of them can be gained from the Chrestomathy written by See also:Proclus the Neo-Platonist of the 5th See also:century or by a grammarian of the same name in the See also:time of the Antonines. The Aethiopis (Ai8wolris), in five books, was so called from the Aethiopian See also:Memnon, who became the ally of the Trojans after the See also:death of See also:Hector. As the opening shows, it took up the narrative from the See also:close of the Iliad. It begins with the famous deeds and death of the See also:Amazon Penthesileia, and concludes with the death and See also:burial of See also:Achilles and the dispute between See also:Ajax and See also:Odysseus for his arms. The See also:title thus only applied to See also:part of the poem. The See also:Sack of See also:Troy ('Iaiou M pats) gives the stories of the wooden See also:horse, Sinon, and See also:Laocoon, the See also:capture of the See also:city, and the departure of the Greeks under the wrath of Athene at the See also:outrage of Ajax on See also:Cassandra. The Little Iliad ('Iycds utxpa) of See also:Lesches formed the transition between the Aethiopis and the Sack of Troy. See also:Kinkel, Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (1877) ; \Velcker, Der epische Cyclus; See also:Muller, See also:History of the Literature of See also:Ancient Greece; See also:Lang, See also:Homer and the Epic (1893) ; See also:Monro, See also:Journal of Hellenic Studies (1883) ; T.

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Allen in Classical Quarterly, See also:April 1908, pp. 82 See also:foil.

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