Cyclic Poets
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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.
Excepting Homer, None of the works of the cyclic poets survive.
