{{Short description|Semi-legendary early Greek poet}}

'''Stasinus''' ({{langx|grc|Στασῖνος|Stasînos}}) of Cyprus was a semi-legendary early Greek poet. He is best known for his lost work ''Cypria'', which was one of the poems belonging to the Epic Cycle that narrated the War of Troy.<ref>Jonathan Burgess, [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1192598 "Kyprias, the 'Kypria,' and Multiformity"] ''Phoenix'' '''56'''.3/4 (Autumn 2002), pp. 234-245.</ref><ref>[http://www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/02mtg/abstracts/burgess.html Jonathan Burgess, "Kyprias, Poet of the Iliaka"]</ref>

The ''Cypria'', presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded the ''Iliad'', and has been described as an introduction.<ref>Thus it forms the earliest identifiable "prequel".</ref> The poem contained an account of the Judgement of Paris, the elopement of Helen, the abandonment of Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos, the landing of the Achaeans on the coast of Asia Minor, and the first engagement before Troy. Proclus, in his ''Chrestomathia'', gave an outline of the poem (preserved in Photius, cod. 239).<ref>David Binning Monro, "On the Fragment of Proclus' Abstract of the Epic Cycle Contained in the Codex Venetus of the ''Iliad''", ''Journal of Hellenic Studies'', '''4''' (1883), pp.&nbsp;305-334.</ref>

Plato puts quotes from Stasinus' works in the mouth of Socrates, in his dialogue ''Euthyphro''.<ref>Plato, ''Euthyphro'' 12a–b (Stasinus ''Cypria'' Fr. 20).</ref>

==Surviving fragments== *''Of Zeus, the author and creator of all these things,/ You will not tell: for where there is fear there is also reverence.'' - fragment cited by Socrates in the ''Euthyphro'' dialogue

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==Sources== *F.G. Welcker, ''[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011408068 Der epische Cyclus, oder Die homerischen Dichter]'' Bonn : E. Weber, 1849-65. *D.B. Monro, ''[https://archive.org/details/homersodyssey00homeiala Homer's Odyssey, books XIII-XXIV]'' Appendix to his edition of ''Odyssey'', xiii–xxiv. (1901) *Thomas W Allen, "The Epic Cycle," in ''Classical Quarterly'' '''2'''.1 (January 1908:54-64).

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