Kypria

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The Kypria were an epic poem from the so-called "cycle" that dealt with the events before the Trojan War , not told by Homer in the Iliad and Odyssey . The work was divided into 11 books and was written in the dactylic hexameter .

Kypria topics included a. the marriage of Peleus and Thetis , the conception and birth of Achilles , the quarrel between Hera , Athena and Aphrodite as well as the judgment of Paris , the kidnapping of Helen , the formation of the Greek alliance against Troy , the gathering of the Greek fleet at Aulis , the Planned sacrifice of Iphigenia and first combat operations in front of Troy.

The epic itself has not survived, but there is a summary by Proclus and quotations from various other authors. Stasinos , who is considered to be Homer's son-in-law , is often named as the author . But there are also attributions to Hegesias and Hegesinos .

The writer and literary scholar Raoul Schrott gives in his edition of the Iliad a summary of the contents handed down in the Kypria. Paul Dräger contradicts his understanding of the title of the work as “Cypriot stories” in his review of Schrott's Iliad transmission: The name is rather derived from the goddess Kypris = Aphrodite, who plays an important role here.

literature

  • A. Bernabé (Ed.): Poetae epici graeci. Testimonia et fragmenta. Part 1, 1987
  • Homeri Opera recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Thomas W. Allen; Tomus V Hymnos, Cyclum, Fragmenta, Margiten, Batrachomyomachiam, Vitas continens. Oxford: University Press 1922, ISBN 978-0198145349 .
  • Homer: Iliad. Retransmitted by Raoul Schrott . Munich: Hanser 2008, ISBN 978-3-446-23046-0 .

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credentials

  1. "The Kyprien are assigned to Stasinos (7th century), but also to Hegesias and Hegesinos." Quoted from: Introduction to Greek Philology , ed. by Heinz-Günther Nesselrath. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner 1997, p. 177.
  2. "According to an ancient assumption, the Cypriots received their title (which in Greek simply means' Cypriot ') from someone who defended the dominance of Kypris (born in Kypros) = Aphrodite (just count their mentions in Proclus' short paraphrase!) recognized in the causal structure. " Paul Dräger's review of Schrott's Iliad transmission ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 547 kB)