Aethiopis
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Within Vinony's link graph, Aethiopis is referenced by 284 other articles, and connects out to Penthesilea, Memnon and Arctinus of Miletus.
Vinony files it under 7th-century BC books, 7th-century BC poems and Epic Cycle.
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Book · Open Library
- Author
- Malcolm Davies
- First published
- 2015
- Editions
- 1
- Subjects
- Epic poetry, history and criticism, Greek Epic poetry, Aethiopis, History and criticism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Part of
- Epic Cycle
- Author
- Arctinus of Miletus
- Genre
- epic literature
- Country of origin
- Ancient Greece
- Followed by
- Little Iliad
- Follows
- Iliad
- Main subject
- Trojan War
- Narrative location
- Troy
- Image
- Akhilleus Penthesileia Staatliche Antikensammlungen 2688 n2.jpg
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- Achilles
- Commons category
- Aethiopis (epic poem)
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Date
- Content
- Importance of the poem
- Editions
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The Aithiopis (; ), also spelled Aethiopis, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the Aethiopis lands chronologically after the Homeric Iliad, and could be followed by that of the Little Iliad. The Aethiopis was often attributed by ancient writers to Arctinus of Miletus who lived in the 8th century BC (see Cyclic poets). The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. Very few fragments of the Aethiopis survive today; Proclus's summary of the poem's contents establishes the narrative framework of the epic.
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