On the Origins of the Modern Term “Epyllion”: Some Revisions to a Chapter in the History of Classical Scholarship

In: Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
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Stefan Tilg
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29–54
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004233058_003

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Series:  Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
Cover Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin <i>Epyllion</i> and Its Reception
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9789004233058
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2012
Preliminary Material
Before the Epyllion: Concepts and Texts
Catullus 64: The Perfect Epyllion?
The Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative Poetry
Demodokos’ Song of Ares and Aphrodite in Homer’s Odyssey (8.266–366): An Epyllion? Agonistic Performativity and Cultural Metapoetics
Borderline Experiences with Genre: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite between Epic, Hymn and Epyllic Poetry
Rhapsodic Hymns and Epyllia
A Proto-Epyllion? The Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield and The Poetics of Deferral
Pindaric Narrative Technique in the Hellenistic Epyllion
The Hecale and Hellenistic Conceptions of Short Hexameter Narratives
Miniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Small Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24)
Herakles in Bits and Pieces: Id. 25 in the Corpus Theocriteum
Achilles at Scyros, and One of His Fans: The Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia (Buc. Gr. 157–158 Gow)
“εἰς ἔπη καὶ ἐλεγείας ἀνάγειν”: The Erotika Pathemata of Parthenius of Nicaea
A Virgo Infelix: Calvus’ Io vis-a-vis Other Cow-And-Bull Stories
The Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Orpheus’ Epyllion
The Fast and the Furious: Triphiodorus’ Reception of Homer in the Capture of Troy
Musaeus, Hero and Leander: Between Epic and Novel
“Museum of Words”: Christodorus, the Art of Ekphrasis and the Epyllic Genre
The Motif of the Rape of Europa: Intertextuality and Absurdity of the Myth in Epyllion and Epic Insets
“Epyllion” or “Short Epic” in the Latin Literature of the Middle Ages?
Short Mythological Epic in Neo-Latin Literature
Robert Burns’ Tam O’ Shanter: A Lallans Epyllion?
Bibliography
General Index
Index Locorum
Index of Selected Greek Words

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