Stasinus (Greek: Στασῖνος) of Cyprus was a semi-legendary early Greek poet. He is best known for his lost work, Cypria which was one of the poems belonging to the Epic Cycle that narrated the War of Troy.[1][2]
The Cypria, presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded the Iliad, and has been described as an introduction.[3] The poem contained an account of the Judgement of Paris, the rape of Helen, the abandonment of Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos, the landing of the Achaeans on the coast of Asia Minor, and the first engagement before Troy. Proclus, in his Chrestomathia, gave an outline of the poem (preserved in Photius, cod. 239).[4]
Plato puts quotes from Stasinus' works in the mouth of Socrates, in his dialogue Euthyphro.[5]
^Jonathan Burgess, Kyprias, the 'Kypria,' and MultiformityPhoenix56.3/4 (Autumn 2002), pp. 234-245.
^Jonathan Burgess, Kyprias, Poet of the Iliaka
^Thus it forms the earliest identifiable "prequel".
Stasinus (Greek: Στασῖνος) of Cyprus was a semi-legendary early Greek poet. He is best known for his lost work, Cypria which was one of the poems belonging...
lost epic poem of ancient Greek literature, which has been attributed to Stasinus and was quite well known in classical antiquity and fixed in a received...
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the lost epic Cypria, the prelude of the Iliad. According to its author, Stasinus of Cyprus, Helen was born from the rape of Nemesis by Zeus. Zeus fell in...
epic poem, probably composed in the late 7th century BC and attributed to Stasinus. The Cypria is one of the first specimens of Greek and European poetry...
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Title Length (books) Most common attribution Content Cypria 11 Stasinus The events leading up to the Trojan War and the first nine years of the conflict...
notable for containing one of the few surviving fragments of the poet Stasinus, a relative of Homer and author of the lost work Cypria. Socrates quotes...
Troilus Author Work Date Full length descriptions in mythological literature Stasinus of Cyprus? Cypria late 7th century BC (lost) Phrynichus Troilos 6th–5th...
Alexander the Great, later satrap of Drangiana, Bactria, and Sogdiana Stasinus (~7th century BC), one of the first European poets, a semi-legendary early...
called the Cypria was said to have been given by Homer to his son-in-law Stasinus of Cyprus as dowry. The connection with Cyprus appears further in the predominance...
epic poem, probably composed in the late 7th century BC and attributed to Stasinus. The Cypriot Zeno of Citium was the founder of the Stoic School of Philosophy...
disparilis Riley, 1945 Mentawai A. k. sala Fruhstorfer, 1914 Borneo A. k. stasinus Fruhstorfer, 1912 Bangka, Belitung The larva feeds on Embelia Riodinidae...
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