The Fall of Troy

Homer's 'Iliad' begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector.

荷马的《伊利亚特》始于特洛伊战争最后十年的末尾，其事件仅持续了大约五十天，并以赫克托的葬礼结束。

The things which came before and after were told by other bards, who between them narrated the whole 'cycle' of the events of the war, and so were called the Cyclic Poets.

在荷马之前和之后发生的事情由其他诗人讲述，他们共同叙述了战争的整个“周期”事件，因此被称为循环诗人。