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Little Iliad
lost ancient Greek epic: Achilles’ arms are awarded to “the greatest hero”; prophecies tell Greeks of preconditions to conquer Troy; Odysseus fulfills them; the Trojan Horse is built and brought into Troy
Details
- Instance of
- literary work
- Part of
- Epic Cycle
- Follows
- Aethiopis
- Followed by
- Iliupersis
- Author
- Lesches
- Genre
- epic literature, epic poem
- country of origin
- Ancient Greece
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- first line
- Μοῦσά μοι ἔννεπε ἔργα, τὰ μήτ’ ἐγένοντο πάροιθε
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
- narrative location
- Troy
- title
- Ἰλιὰς μικρά
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