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See also:LESCHES (Lescheos in See also:Pausanias x. 25. 5)
, the reputed author of the Little Iliad ('I uas .uepa), one of the " cyclic " poems
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According to the usually accepted tradition, he was a native of Pyrrha in See also:Lesbos, and flourished about 66o B.C
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(others See also:place him about 5o years earlier)
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The Little Iliad took up the See also:story of the Homeric Iliad, and, beginning with the contest between See also:Ajax and See also:Odysseus for the arms of See also:Achilles, carried it down to the fall of See also:Troy (See also:Aristotle, Poetics, 23)
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According to the See also:epitome in the Chrestomathy of See also:Proclus, it ended with the See also:admission of the wooden See also:horse within the walls of the See also:city
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Some See also:ancient authorities ascribe the See also:work to a Lacedaemonian named Cinaethon, and even to See also:Homer
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See also:Welcker, Der epische Cyclus (1865—1882) ; See also:
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