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    Iliupersis (redirect from Iliou Persis)
    The Iliupersis (Greek: Ἰλίου πέρσις, Iliou persis, "Sack of Ilium"), also known as The Sack of Troy, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was...
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    also known as the Cyclic Epics: the Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony. Though these poems survive only in fragments,...
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    Troy is Neoptolemus according to the Little Iliad; according to the Iliou persis, it is Odysseus. How and when the eight epics of the Cycle came to be...
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  • chronologically after that of the Aethiopis, and is followed by that of the Iliou persis ("Sack of Troy"). The Little Iliad was variously attributed by ancient...
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    as predicted by Andromache in the Iliad. Another version is given in Iliou persis, in which Odysseus kills Astyanax. It has also been depicted in some...
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    Ilium(Troy). The poem is an abridgement of the epic poems Aethiopis and Iliou Persis by Arctinus of Miletus, and the Little Iliad by Lesches, all now-lost...
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    attributed to Stasinos of Cyprus the Aithiopis the Little Iliad the Iliou Persis ("Sack of Troy") the Nostoi ("Returns") several poems by Stesichorus...
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  • the dispute between Ajax and Odysseus for his arms. The Sack of Troy (Iliou Persis) told the stories of the Trojan Horse, Sinon, and Laocoön, the capture...
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  • Achilles, Actaeon, Aulodoi ("The Flute-Singers"), Bacchae, Dexamenus, Iliou Persis ("The Sacking of Troy"), Pentheus, and Telephus. It is said that Iophon...
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    but later works, including Virgil's Aeneid, and almost certainly the Iliou persis, mention that Acamas was one of the men inside the Trojan horse. The...
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  • paintings of the Thasian painter Polygnotus, namely the Capture of Troy (Iliou Persis) and the Nekyia (the visit of Odysseus to Hades). The building was located...
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  • and Days Homeric Hymns Aethiopis [fragments] Little Iliad [fragments] Iliou persis ("Sack of Troy") [fragments] Nostoi [fragments] Telegony [fragments]...
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    and scenes. Of particular interest and value is the description of the Iliou Persis (Fall of Troy), the painting by Polygnotus which used to decorate the...
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  • (2003) 32–3. Thucydides 4.52.2, Kallet-Marx (1993) 155–9. Tryphiodorus, Iliou Persis 216, Libanius, Orationes 1.15, Scholia on Homer, Iliad 7.339b1, 14.36...
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