- In
classical studies the term
epyllion (Ancient Gr****: ἐπύλλιον, plural: ἐπύλλια, epyllia)
refers to a
comparatively short narrative poem (or discrete...
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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...
- 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"...
- 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...
- sung in most families.
Noted Tamil scholar S. K.
Ramarajan wrote a
noted epyllion, Meganadham, the
tragedy of Indrajit,
known for its
characterisation of...
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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...
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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...
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elsewhere unattested rape of
Oenone by Apollo.
Thomas Heywood wrote the
epyllion Oenone and
Paris (1594) in
rhyme royal.
William Morris included "The Death...
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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...
