CYCLIC POETS

Definition: CYCLIC POETS

CYCLIC POETS

1. Certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; -- so called because keeping within the circle of a single subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject. --Milman.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: CYCLIC POETS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Cyclic Poets Inferior epic poets. On the death of Homer a host of minstrels caught the contagion of his poems, and wrote continuations, illustrations, or additions thereto. These poets were called cyclic because they confined themselves to the cycle of the Trojan war. The chief were Agias, Arctinos, Eugamon, Lesches, and Strasinos. "Besides the Homeric poems, the Greeks of this age possessed those of the poets named Cyclic as they sang a traditional cycle of events " - Keightley: Greece, part i chap.xiv. p. 150. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: CYCLIC POETS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-c-e-i-l-o-p-s-t-y"
	-2 letters: epicotyls, lipocytes.
	-3 letters: cyclopes, ecotypic, epicotyl, lipocyte.
	-4 letters: citoles, copyist, cotypes, cyclist, cyclops, cylices, ectopic, isotype, peyotls, piolets, pistole, poetics, polices, sceptic, society.
	-5 letters: cestoi, cicely, citole, closet, clypei, colics, colies, copies, cosily, costly, cotype, coyest, cycles, cyclic, cyclos, cystic, octyls, optics, pectic, peyotl, picots, pilose, pilots, piolet, pistol, poetic, poleis, police, policy, polies.
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