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STASINUS , of See also:

Cyprus, according to some See also:ancient authorities the author of the Cypria (in 11 books), one of the poems belonging to the epic See also:cycle. Others ascribed it to Hegesias (or Hegesinus) of See also:Salamis or even to See also:Homer himself, who was said to have written it on the occasion of his daughter's See also:marriage to Stasinus. The Cypria, presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, .confined itself to what preceded, and thus formed a See also:kind of introduction to the Iliad. It contained an See also:account of the See also:judgment of See also:Paris, the See also:rape of See also:Helen, the See also:abandonment of See also:Philoctetes on the See also:island of See also:Lemnos, the landing of the See also:Achaeans on the See also:coast of See also:Asia, and the first engagement before See also:Troy. It is probable that the See also:list of the Trojans and their See also:allies (Iliad, ii. 816–876), which formed an appendix to the See also:catalogue of the See also:Greek See also:ships, is abridged from that in the Cypria, which was known to contain a list of the Trojan allies. See also:Proclus, in his Chrestomathia, gave an outline of the poem (preserved in See also:Photius, See also:cod. 239). See F. G. See also:Welcker, Der epische Cyclus (1862) ; D. B.

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Monro, Appendix to his edition of Odyssey, xiii.-See also:xxiv. (19o1); T. W. See also:Allen, " The Epic Cycle," in Classical Quarterly (See also:Jan.

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