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{{Short description|Semi-legendary early Greek poet}} |
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'''Stasinus''' ({{langx|grc|Στασῖνος|Stasînos}}) of [[Cyprus]] was a semi-legendary early [[Cyclic poets|Greek poet]]. He is best known for his lost work ''[[Cypria]]'', which was one of the poems belonging to the [[Epic Cycle]] that narrated the [[War of Troy]].Jonathan Burgess, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1192598 |
'''Stasinus''' ({{langx|grc|Στασῖνος|Stasînos}}) of [[Cyprus]] was a semi-legendary early [[Cyclic poets|Greek poet]]. He is best known for his lost work ''[[Cypria]]'', which was one of the poems belonging to the [[Epic Cycle]] that narrated the [[War of Troy]].Jonathan Burgess, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1192598 "Kyprias, the 'Kypria,' and Multiformity"] ''Phoenix'' '''56'''.3/4 (Autumn 2002), pp. 234-245.[http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/02mtg/abstracts/burgess.html Jonathan Burgess, "Kyprias, Poet of the Iliaka"] |
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The ''Cypria'', presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded the ''[[Iliad]]'', and has been described as an introduction.Thus it forms the earliest identifiable "[[prequel]]". The poem contained an account of the [[Judgement of Paris]], the [[Helen of Troy#Seduction or kidnapping by Paris|elopement of Helen]], the abandonment of [[Philoctetes]] on the island of [[Lemnos]], the landing of the [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaeans]] on the coast of [[Asia Minor]], and the first engagement before [[Troy]]. [[Proclus]], in his ''Chrestomathia'', gave an outline of the poem (preserved in [[Photios I of Constantinople|Photius]], cod. 239). |
The ''Cypria'', presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded the ''[[Iliad]]'', and has been described as an introduction.Thus it forms the earliest identifiable "[[prequel]]". The poem contained an account of the [[Judgement of Paris]], the [[Helen of Troy#Seduction or kidnapping by Paris|elopement of Helen]], the abandonment of [[Philoctetes]] on the island of [[Lemnos]], the landing of the [[Achaeans (Homer)|Achaeans]] on the coast of [[Asia Minor]], and the first engagement before [[Troy]]. [[Proclus]], in his ''Chrestomathia'', gave an outline of the poem (preserved in [[Photios I of Constantinople|Photius]], cod. 239).[[David Binning Monro]], "On the Fragment of Proclus' Abstract of the Epic Cycle Contained in the Codex Venetus of the ''Iliad''", ''[[Journal of Hellenic Studies]]'', '''4''' (1883), pp. 305-334. |
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[[Plato]] puts quotes from Stasinus' works in the mouth of Socrates, in his dialogue ''[[Euthyphro]]''.Plato, ''Euthyphro'' 12a–b (Stasinus ''Cypria'' Fr. 20). |
[[Plato]] puts quotes from Stasinus' works in the mouth of Socrates, in his dialogue ''[[Euthyphro]]''.Plato, ''Euthyphro'' 12a–b (Stasinus ''Cypria'' Fr. 20). |
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*[[David Binning Monro|D.B. Monro]], ''[https://archive.org/details/homersodyssey00homeiala Homer's Odyssey, books XIII-XXIV]'' Appendix to his edition of ''[[Odyssey]]'', xiii–xxiv. (1901) |
*[[David Binning Monro|D.B. Monro]], ''[https://archive.org/details/homersodyssey00homeiala Homer's Odyssey, books XIII-XXIV]'' Appendix to his edition of ''[[Odyssey]]'', xiii–xxiv. (1901) |
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*Thomas W Allen, "The Epic Cycle," in ''Classical Quarterly'' '''2'''.1 (January 1908:54-64). |
*Thomas W Allen, "The Epic Cycle," in ''Classical Quarterly'' '''2'''.1 (January 1908:54-64). |
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*{{EB1911|wstitle=Stasinus|volume=25|page=799}} |
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