Cyclic Poets

Ancient Greek epic poets The Cyclic Poets is a shorthand term for the early Greek epic poets, who were approximate contemporaries of Homer. No more is known about those poets than about Homer, but modern scholars regard them as having composed orally, as did Homer. In the classical period, surviving early epic poems were ascribed to those authors, just as the Iliad and Odyssey were ascribed to Homer. Together with Homer, whose Iliad covers a mere 50 days of the war, they cover the complete war "cycle", thus the name. Most modern scholars place Homer in the 8th century BC. The other poets listed below seemed to have lived in the 7th to the 5th centuries BC. Excluding Homer's, none of the works of the cyclic poets has survived. List of named poets Homer Stasinus of Cyprus Creophylus of Samos Panyassis of Halicarnassus Arctinus of Miletus Lesches of Pyrrha Cinaethon of Sparta Thestorides of Phocaea (the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer says that Thestorides used writing) Antimachus of Teos Eumelus of Corinth Agias of Troezen Diodorus of Erythrae Hegesias of Salamis (or Hegesinus) Cyprias of Halicarnassus Carcinus of Naupactus Prodicus of Phocaea Eugammon of Cyrene Pisinous of Lindus Pi