Prequels

A prequel is a literary, dramatic or cinematic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative. A prequel is a work that forms part of a backstory to the preceding work.

style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, music, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the past

thumb|upright=1|Retrofuturistic depiction of a flying locomotive, visually based on the Nebraska Zephyr, in a [[dieselpunk style reminiscent of the early 1940s]] thumb|Proposed high-speed ocean express ("Ozeanreise im Jahre 2.000") as in the year 2000, 1931 (Hamburg - New York in 40 hours) thumb|Hotel on tracks ("Reisehotel") as in the year 2000, work of 1898 thumb|An Art Deco [[flying wing circa the jet age ]]

The Cypria (; ; ) is a 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 text, but which subsequently was lost to view. It was part of the Epic Cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic hexameter verse. The story of the Cypria comes chronologically at the beginning of the Epic Cycle, and is followed by that of the Iliad; the composition of the two was apparently in the reverse order. The poem comprised eleven books of verse in epic dactylic hexameters.

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