Stasinus

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Stasinus (

War of Troy.[1][2]

The Cypria, presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded the

Asia Minor, and the first engagement before Troy. Proclus, in his Chrestomathia, gave an outline of the poem (preserved in Photius, cod. 239).[4]

Plato puts quotes from Stasinus' works in the mouth of Socrates, in his dialogue Euthyphro.[5]

Surviving fragments

  • Of Zeus, the author and creator of all these things,/ You will not tell: for where there is fear there is also reverence. - fragment cited by Socrates in the Euthyphro dialogue

References

  1. ^ Jonathan Burgess, Kyprias, the 'Kypria,' and Multiformity Phoenix 56.3/4 (Autumn 2002), pp. 234-245.
  2. ^ Jonathan Burgess, Kyprias, Poet of the Iliaka
  3. ^ Thus it forms the earliest identifiable "prequel".
  4. ^ Chisholm 1911.
  5. ^ Plato, Euthyphro 12a–b (Stasinus Cypria Fr. 20).

Sources

  • F.G. Welcker, Der epische Cyclus, oder Die homerischen Dichter Bonn : E. Weber, 1849-65.
  • D.B. Monro, Homer's Odyssey, books XIII-XXIV Appendix to his edition of Odyssey
    , xiii–xxiv. (1901)
  • Thomas W Allen, "The Epic Cycle," in Classical Quarterly 2.1 (January 1908:54-64).
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Stasinus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 799.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stasinus&oldid=1200961888"