{"product_id":"the-epic-cycle-concludes-malcolm-davies-9780674307216","title":"The Epic Cycle Concludes: The Sack of Troy and the Nostoi of the Heroes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Epic Cycle Concludes\u003c\/i\u003e deals with the two separate epics that related the sack of Troy and with the two that recounted the returns home of the victorious Greek heroes and the further adventures and death of the most famous of those surviving heroes, Odysseus (the \u003ci\u003eNostoi\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eTelegony, \u003c\/i\u003e respectively). This volume completes a set of four commentaries by Malcolm Davies on the poems of the Epic Cycle, published within the Hellenic Studies series, which began with \u003ci\u003eThe Theban Epics\u003c\/i\u003e and continued with \u003ci\u003eThe Aethiopis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cypria\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs with the \u003ci\u003eCypria, \u003c\/i\u003e those of the \u003ci\u003eLittle Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e's fragments which consist of verses quoted verbatim are sufficient in quantity to supply convincing linguistic evidence that the poem was post-Homeric in date. The smaller number of verbatim fragments from the \u003ci\u003eIliupersis\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNostoi\u003c\/i\u003e confirm the like conclusion. No verbatim fragments survive from the Telegony, but a late prose summary of its contents suggests both that it was intended as a sequel to the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey;\u003c\/i\u003e but also that, like the other epics analyzed in \u003ci\u003eThe Epic Cycle Concludes, \u003c\/i\u003e it was strikingly un-Homeric in several of its subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Malcolm Davies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674307216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674307216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Malcolm Davies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49084084224255,"sku":"9780674307216","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-epic-cycle-concludes-malcolm-davies-9780674307216","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}