The Epic Cycle

Part of Story Covered	Name of Work	Name of Author	Date	No. of Books
From the decision of the gods to cause the Trojan War to the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon	Cypria	Stasinos of Cyprus (or Hegesias or Homer)	Not given	11
From the anger of Achilles to the burial of Hector	Iliad	Homer	In question	24
From the coming of the Amazons to the suicide of Ajax	Aithiopis	Arktinos of Miletos	776 B.C., 744 B.C.	5
From the death of Achilles to the fall of Troy and the departure of the Achaeans	Little Iliad	Lesches of Lesbos (or Thestorides or Kinaithon or Diodorus or Homer)	Evidence obscure, conflicting	4
From the building of the wooden horse to the fall of Troy	Sack of Ilion (Iliouspersis)	Arktinos of Miletos	776 B.C., 744 B.C.	2
The returns of the various heroes	The Returns (Nostoi)	Agias of Troizen (or an anonymous Kolophonian or Homer)		5
The return of Odysseus	Odyssey	Homer	In question	24
From the return of Odysseus to his death	Telegony	Eugammon of Cyrene (or kinaithos of Lakedaimon)	568 B.C.	2

Source: adapted from Richmond Lattimore's translation of the Iliad (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 26.