The Junction between the Kypria and the Iliad

Abstract

AT LEAST AS EARLY AS HERODOTOS (2.117), the events leading up to those narrated in the Iliad had become identified with an epic known as Ta K6iptac 8etea, zT KurptaK&a rotiactact, or simply Ta K67ipta. Most of our evidence for the Kypria is contained in a prose summary of the Epic Cycle usually attributed to the fifth-century A.D. Neoplatonist Proklos,1 who describes the narrative sequence from the ending of the Kypria to the beginning of the Iliad as follows: