Abstract
The poems of the Epic Cycle' are commonly regarded as minor satellites of the Iliad and Odyssey. Their authors, whoever they were and whatever their date,2 are suspected not only of composing introductions and sequels to the Homeric poems, but also of using the Homeric poems as a source to expand upon.3 The relation between the Cyclic poems and early Greek myth is therefore thought to be problematic.4 Certainly many scholars have been willing to consider at least some of the material in the Cyclic poems traditional and pre-Homeric.5 If anything, scholars have become more respectful of the Cyclic poems because of
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