“Unveiling the Untold: Discover the Enigmatic Lost Sequels of The Iliad That Could Rewrite History!”
Much like Marvel’s main films vs their Disney+ spin offs, the Cyclical Epics were always overshadowed by the Iliad and Odyssey, and that was probably their downfall. The two poems along with Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days held a canonical status in Hellenic culture and religious life. Eventually the negative reception of the Epic Cycle and canonicity of the Homeric poems left the Cycle reduced to prose summaries. Sometimes these summaries are attached to copies of Homer’s poems, sometimes they are part of larger collections. The Greeks and Romans were happy enough reading prose summaries of these poems. Eventually with Christianity moving in and the culture rapidly changing, the Homeric Epics took on a different canonical form: that of Greek literature. The Epic Cycle was already considered inferior so they stuck to summaries so much that a Christian philosopher from the 6th century claimed he could no longer find the complete epics in verse.
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