Cyclic Poets are epic poets who followed Homer and wrote poems and songs about the Trojan war. Together with Homer, whose Iliad covers a mere 50 days of the war, they cover the complete war "cycle", thus the name. The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, which retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... The Iliad (Greek Ιλιάς, Ilias) tells part of the story of the siege of the city of Ilium, i. ...

Of the writings of the Cyclic Poets, except Homers, none have survived.