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LESCHES (Lescheos in Pausanias x. 25. 5)

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LESCHES (Lescheos in See also:Pausanias x. 25. 5) , the reputed author of the Little Iliad ('I uas .uepa), one of the " cyclic " poems. According to the usually accepted tradition, he was a native of Pyrrha in See also:Lesbos, and flourished about 66o B.C. (others See also:place him about 5o years earlier). The Little Iliad took up the See also:story of the Homeric Iliad, and, beginning with the contest between See also:Ajax and See also:Odysseus for the arms of See also:Achilles, carried it down to the fall of See also:Troy (See also:Aristotle, Poetics, 23). According to the See also:epitome in the Chrestomathy of See also:Proclus, it ended with the See also:admission of the wooden See also:horse within the walls of the See also:city. Some See also:ancient authorities ascribe the See also:work to a Lacedaemonian named Cinaethon, and even to See also:Homer. See F. G. See also:Welcker, Der epische Cyclus (1865—1882) ; See also:Muller and See also:Donaldson, Hist. of See also:Greek Literature, i. ch. 6; G.

H. See also:

Bode, Geschichte der hellenischen Dichtkunst, i.

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