The
Little Iliad (
Greek: ,
Ilias mikra; ) is a lost
epic of ancient
Greek literature. It was one of the
Epic Cycle, that is, the "Trojan" cycle, which told the entire history of the
Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the
Little Iliad comes chronologically after that of the
Aethiopis, and is followed by that of the
Iliou persis ("Sack of Troy"). The
Little Iliad was variously attributed by ancient writers to
Lesches of Pyrrha,
Cinaethon of Sparta, Diodorus of Erythrae,
Thestorides of Phocaea, or
Homer himself (see
Cyclic poets). The poem comprised four books of verse in
dactylic hexameter, the heroic meter.