Cycʹlic 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 Agʹias, Arctiʹnos, Euʹgamon, Lesʹchēs, and Strasīnos.