Iliūpersis (Īliou persis, ‘sack of Troy’).
1. Title of a lost poem of the Epic Cycle attributed to Arctīnus of Miletus, a sequel in two books to the Little Iliad. The events are said to be the following. The Wooden Horse enters Troy; two snakes destroy Laocŏon and one of his sons; Sinon (see TROJAN HORSE) signals to the departed Greek army to return to Troy, and the Greeks take the city; Neoptolemus kills Priam, Menelaus finds Helen, and Ajax son of Oileus tries to carry off Cassandra, pulling over the statue of Athena in the attempt; Odysseus murders Astyanax, son of Hector, and Neoptolemus takes Hector's wife Andromachē as prize; the Greeks set fire to the city, sacrifice Polyxena at the tomb of Achilles, and sail home, with the goddess Athena planning vengeance for Ajax' violation.
2. See STESICHORUS.
