The
Cypria (
Kypria;
Latin:
Cypria) is an
epic of ancient
Greek literature, which has been attributed to
Stasinos of Cyprus and was quite well known in the Classical period and fixed in a received text, but which subsequently was lost to view. It was part of the
Epic Cycle, that is, the "Trojan" cycle, which told the entire history of the
Trojan War in epic hexameter verse. The story of the
Cypria comes chronologically at the beginning of the Epic Cycle, and is followed by that of the
Iliad; the composition of the two was apparently in the reverse order. The
poem comprised eleven books of verse in epic
dactylic hexameters.