Note 729 — Chapter XI · THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ.

For instance, Stasinus or Hegesias, author of the Kypria or Cyprian Iliad (Herod. Lib. ii. 117), assigned to the end of the eighth century b.c., when Kypros may have had her ‘Homeric School.’ It was in nine books, of which the argument has been preserved by Proclus in Photius; and it forms a kind of introduction to the Iliad. See Palma’s Cyprus, p. 13. ‘Homer’ is said to mention iron thirty times.