The Epic Cycle (Greek: Επικός Κύκλος) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems that relate the story of the Trojan War, which includes the Kypria, the Aithiopis, the Iliou persis ("The Sack of Troy"), the Nostoi ("Returns"), and the Telegony. Scholars sometimes include the two Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, among the poems of the Epic Cycle, but the term is more often used to specify the non-Homeric poems as distinct from the Homeric ones.