Kypria
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 .
Web links
- Contents: KYPRIA - The Cypriot Stories at hr-online
credentials
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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)