According to some ancient authorities, Stasinus ( el, Στασῖνος) of
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was a semi-legendary early Cyclic poets, Greek poet. He is best known for his lost work, ''Cypria'' which was one of the poems belonging to the Epic Cycle that narrated the War of Troy.
The ''Cypria'', presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded the ''Iliad'', and has been described as an introduction. The poem contained an account of the Judgement of Paris, the rape of Helen of Troy, Helen, the abandonment of Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos, the landing of the Achaeans (Homer), Achaeans on the coast of Asia Minor, and the first engagement before Troy. Proclus, in his ''Chrestomathia'', gave an outline of the poem (preserved in Photios I of Constantinople, Photius, cod. 239).
Plato puts quotes from Stasinus' works in the mouth of Socrates, in his dialogue ''Euthyphro''.
[Plato, ''Euthyphro'' 12a–b (Stasinus ''Cypria'' Fr. 20).]
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
Sources
*Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, F.G. Welcker,
Der epische Cyclus, oder Die homerischen Dichter' Bonn : E. Weber, 1849-65.
*David Binning Monro, 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).
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Cypriot poets
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7th-century BC poets
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Ancient Greek writers known only from secondary sources