 Although "Aethiopis" has been lost, the Epic Cycle has been adapted and recycled in different periods of the classical age.The tradition of retelling the epic fall of Troy is indebted to Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey", which were grounded in oral story-telling and were only written down when the Greek alphabet was adopted in ancient Greece.In the "Aethiopis" Penthesilea is a Thracian woman warrior.