In classical studies the term epyllion (Ancient Greek: ἐπύλλιον, plural: ἐπύλλια, epyllia) refers to a comparatively short narrative poem (or discrete...

influenced by Ovid. The most famous example of classical epyllion is perhaps Catullus 64. Epyllion is to be understood as distinct from mock epic, another...

poem is estimated to run to have had around 1000 lines, it constitutes an epyllion, a shorter form of epic poetry dealing with topics not traditionally present...

sung in most families. Noted Tamil scholar S. K. Ramarajan wrote a noted epyllion, Meganadham, the tragedy of Indrajit, known for its characterisation of...

to Zeus and Apollo. He promoted short poetic forms such as the epigram, epyllion and the iambic and attacked epic as base and common ("big book, big evil"...

work, nothing of which survives. His few surviving works consist of an epyllion, the Europa, on the myth of Europa, three bucolic fragments and a whole...

 252–253. Ovid (1990). "Ovid's Framing Technique: The Aeacus and Cephalus Epyllion (Met. 7.490-8.5)". The Classical Journal. 86 (1): 35–44. JSTOR 3297921...

Book 4 concludes with a long mythological narrative, in the form of an epyllion which describes vividly the discovery of beekeeping by Aristaeus and the...

frames the Aristaeus epyllion beginning at line 315. The tone of the book changes from didactic to epic and elegiac in this epyllion, which contains within...

published in 2012. The work takes the form of a mythological and erotic epyllion of 144 verses. Pascoli composed the poem in 1883 when, in financial difficulties...

elsewhere unattested rape of Oenone by Apollo. Thomas Heywood wrote the epyllion Oenone and Paris (1594) in rhyme royal. William Morris included "The Death...

put too much detail in the setting but allow it to emerge in play. Epyllion Epyllion is a game where players play dragons in a dragon-centric world, published...

that pulls together a series of examples in miniature form, such as the epyllion; a sampling of one genre after another; or simply a narrative that refuses...

afterwards Ptolemy III. For the Ptolemies claimed descent from Heracles." Epyllion Acosta-Hughes 2012, p. 249. Edmonds, ed. 1919, p. 289. Lang, ed. 1880,...

indeed if he would have finished it at all. The poem may be called an epyllion, that is, a "little epic": it is longer than a lyric or elegy, but concerned...

presenting the founding myth of a local cult of Demeter on Cos. Hermes was an epyllion, or brief mythological narrative, written in hexameter. It had the structure...

bashfulness and the engrafting of their bodies. A rendering of the story into an epyllion, published anonymously in 1602, was later (1640) attributed by some to...

a charming epyllion or as an elaborate allegory in which the shepherd symbolizes Augustus and the gnat Marcellus. The Ciris is an epyllion in 541 hexameters...

This is an idyll of the epic sort, and is sometimes categorised as an epyllion. In the course of the narrative, Heracles visits the herds of King Augeas...

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Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, while Catullus emulated the Homeric Hymns in his epyllion on the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Virgil drew upon the Homeric Hymns...

Catullus 64 is an epyllion or "little epic" poem written by Latin poet Catullus. Catullus' longest poem, it retains his famed linguistic witticisms while...

the Landesschule Pforta. Ilgen is credited as the first to use the term "epyllion" in classical literature, coining the term in 1796 when describing the...

Tom 2. Tales nr. 260—263. Krzyżanowski, Julian (1947). "K. Kobylińskiego epyllion o "Rybce"" (PDF). Pamiętnik Literacki: Czasopismo kwartalne poświęcone...

we learn that the lady lived by the river Ankor in Warwickshire, and an epyllion, Endimion and Phoebe: Ideas Latmus (1595). This has led to the notion that...

regarded wines accessible to and consumed by the ancient Romans. In an Epyllion written in c.92 CE, Silius Italicus, a prominent Roman senator, attributed...

and a correspondent of Cicero. He was also an augur. He wrote a now lost epyllion titled Glaucus. During the Roman civil war of 49–45 BC, Cornificius sided...

as a metaphor for Nonnus' varied style. Nonnus employs the style of the epyllion for many of his narrative sections, such as his treatment of Ampelus in...

In Baumbach, M.; Bär, S. (eds.). Brill's companion to Greek and Latin epyllion and its reception. Brill's companions in classical studies. Leiden: Brill...

and Latin Pastoral, Leiden, 515–48 Hollis, A. (2006), "The Hellenistic Epyllion and Its Descendants", in S.F. Johnson (ed.). Greek Literature in Late Antiquity...