Iliupersis

thumb|right|250px|The Fall of Troy by Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–1769); from the collections of the Grand Dukes of Baden, [[Karlsruhe]]

The Iliupersis (Greek: , , ), also known as The Sack of Troy, is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the Trojan cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the Iliou persis comes chronologically after that of the Little Iliad, and is followed by the ("Returns"). The Iliou persis was sometimes attributed by ancient writers to Arctinus of Miletus who lived in the E (see Cyclic Poets). The poem comprised two books of verse in dactylic hexameter.