Epic cycle

Japanese: Epic cycle(英語表記)Epiccycle
Epic cycle

…After Homer, many epics were written up until the 6th century BCE, which supplemented the Homeric story, covering the entire story from the beginning of the war to the aftermath of the heroes who participated in it. This chain of epics is called the Epic Cycle. All of these epics except for Homer's have been lost, but fortunately the outlines of them have been passed down, and we can get a rough idea of ​​them from later tragedies, lyric poems, etc. that were based on them. …

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Japanese:

…そこでホメロス以後,前6世紀ころにかけ,ホメロスの物語の前後を補う幾多の叙事詩が作られ,ここに戦争の発端から,参戦した英雄たちの後日譚に至る一部始終が網羅されることになった。この叙事詩の連鎖が〈叙事詩環Epic cycle〉と呼ばれるものである。これらの叙事詩はホメロスを除いて散逸したが,幸いその梗概は伝えられており,かつまたこれらに取材して作られた後世の悲劇,抒情詩などによって,大略を知ることができる。…

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