According to some ancient authorities,
Stasinus of
Cyprus, a semi-legendary early
Greek poet, was the author of the
Cypria, in eleven books, one of the poems belonging to the
Epic Cycle that narrated the
War of Troy. According to
Photius others ascribed it to
Hegesias (or Hegesinus) of Salamis or elsewhere even to
Homer himself, who was said to have written it on the occasion of his daughter's marriage to Stasinus. At
Halicarnassus, according to an inscription found in 1995, local tradition ascribed it to a local poet, a "Kyprias" (Κυπρίας).