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Ever heard of an ancient conflict called [[The Trojan War]]? Quite a story, really. And then there's [[Homer]]'s epic ''[[The Iliad]]'' and ''[[
Something's missing -- namely, the first nine years of the war, the actual ''end'' of the war, and associated myths. Surely they weren't just floating about in the [[Oral Tradition]] until [[Aeschylus|some]] [[Euripides|ancient]] [[Sophocles|tragedians]] got ahold of them?
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As it happens, they weren't. It turns out that the ''The Iliad'' and the ''The Odyssey'' were not the only epics which pulled together the tales of the Trojan War. In fact, there were '''eight''':
* ''[[Cypria]]''
* ''[[The Iliad]]''
* ''[[Aethiopis]]''
* ''[[Little Iliad]]''
* ''[[Sack of Ilion]]''
* ''[[Returns]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Telegony]]''
We've [[Missing Episode|lost]] every one of the above except for Homer's epics, but yet we still know of them.
Thanks to these sources, we know that the epics covered everything from the marriage of Peleus and Thetis to Odysseus's death.
{{tropelist|Tropes provided by the Trojan Cycle as a whole:}}
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: There were likely varying versions of these stories in the [[Oral Tradition]]. Writing them down distilled them into the versions remaining today (though variety still exists).
* [[Badass]]: So many, Achilles in particular.
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