Troy 14
by CTCWeb Editors
Troy Redux
Other versions of the story of Troy were believed to have existed. These other poems fleshed out the remainder of the story of the Trojan War. These are largely lost and are referred to commonly by the name “the epic cycle.” The names and basic plots of some of these poems are known because ancient summaries of the story lines have survived in, for example, the Bibliotheca of Photius. Generally, Homer’s telling of the Trojan War stories is thought to be the best of the epic cycle.
Two later examples of the Trojan War stories were very popular during the Middle Ages. These were claimed to have been firsthand accounts written by men who were at Troy. However, scholarly investigations have shown that these texts were most likely composed in the 1st century C.E. The supposed authors of these Greek stories were Dictys and Dares. Once written, both of the texts were “translated” into Latin.
