ARCTINUS, of Miletus, author, according to Proclus in the Chrestomatlty, of two poems of the epic cycle, the Aithiopis, which took up the narrative from the close of the Iliad, beginning with the famous deeds and death of the Amazon Penthesileia, and end ing with the death and burial of Achilles and the dispute for his arms, and the Sack of Troy (Iliou Persis), which gave the story of the wooden horse and ended with the departure of the Greeks after the outrage of Cassandra. (Of this poem 12 lines are extant.) The Little Iliad of Lesches formed the transition between the two. The poems are attributed to other authors by the Tabula Iliaca, Athenaeus and Pausanias.