• The Nostoi (Greek: Νόστοι, Nostoi, "Returns"), also known as Returns or Returns of the Greeks, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one...
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    Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony. Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the...
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    "The Mushki/Phrygian Problem from the Near Eastern Point of View", In: Nostoi. Indigenous Culture, Migration and Integration in the Aegean Islands and...
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    the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic Batrachomyomachia...
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    read" that it contained stories of the heroes of the Trojan War and the nostoi, missing in surviving manuscripts. Sir James George Frazer published an...
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  • the year 740 BC. His poem was celebrated in antiquity, under the name of Nostoi (Νόστοι), i.e. the history of the return of the Achaean heroes from Troy...
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  • Karkiša with Carians". In Kopanias, K.; Maner, Ç.; Stampolidis, N. (eds.). Nostoi. Indigenous Culture, Migration and Integration in the Aegean Islands and...
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    chronologically after that of the Little Iliad, and is followed by the Nostoi ("Returns"). The Iliou persis was sometimes attributed by ancient writers...
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  • or Canadian), "return" can refer to either: Kickoff return Punt return Nostoi ("Returns"), a lost ancient Greek epic Diminishing returns, referring to...
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    Mycene and Arestor were the parents of Argus Panoptes, see Fowler, p. 236; Nostoi fr. 8* (West, pp. 160, 161) = Scholiast on the Odyssey 2.120. Roman, Luke;...
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  • (perhaps the same as Europia), Titanomachy, and Return from Troy (one of the Nostoi) were also ascribed to Eumelus by various later authors. Eumelus was traditionally...
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    Epic Cycle Aethiopis Cypria Iliad Iliupersis Little Iliad Nostoi Odyssey Telegony Theban Cycle Oedipodea Thebaid Epigoni Alcmeonis Others Aesop's Fables...
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    Electra (Sophocles play) The story was also told at the end of the lost epic Nostoi (also known as Returns or Returns of the Greeks) The events are also brought...
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    way home, has been described by classicists as a nostos. Hero's journey Nostoi Bonifazi, Anna (2009). "Inquiring into Nostos and Its Cognates". American...
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  • Oiax and Nausimedon. The mythographer Apollodorus reports that, in the Nostoi (Returns), an early epic from the Trojan cycle of poems about the Trojan...
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    the murder of Agamemnon) were told in two epics, the Returns (the lost Nostoi) and Homer's Odyssey. The Trojan cycle also includes the adventures of the...
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    Colophon in Asia Minor shortly after the Trojan War (as told in the Cyclic Nostoi and Melampodia): the prophet Mopsus beat him in a contest of soothsaying...
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    Cyprus the Aithiopis the Little Iliad the Iliou Persis ("Sack of Troy") the Nostoi ("Returns") several poems by Stesichorus, Alcaeus, and Sappho numerous plays...
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    as the Cyclic Epics: the Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony. Though these poems survive only in fragments, their content...
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    604; Apollodorus, 3.2.2 with Cercops as the authority for Hesione while Nostoi as the source for Philyra Apollodorus, Epitome 3.7 Hyginus, Fabulae 105...
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    was a young man when he went to war. According to Proclus' summary of the Nostoi, Phoenix, while traveling home from the Trojan War with Neoptolemus, died...
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