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Title: A New Epic Fragment on Achilles' Helmet?
Author(s): SAMPSON, C. Michael
Journal: Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists
Volume: 49    Date: 2012   
Pages: 7-14
DOI: 10.2143/BASP.49.0.3206593

Abstract :
Edition of a small scrap from the Princeton collection containing fragmentary epic hexameters, ascribed to the cyclic Aethiopis of Arctinus or the Little Iliad on the basis of its contents, which most plausibly involve the death of Achilles (with possible echoes of that of Penthesilea).

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