Brill's companion to Greek and Latin epyllion and its reception

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Brill's companion to Greek and Latin epyllion and its reception

edited by Manuel Baumbach and Silvio Bär

Brill, 2012

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In classical scholarship of the past two centuries, the term "epyllion" was used to label short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period (Greek) or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, characteristics such as a predilection for episodic narration or female characters were regarded as typically "epyllic" features. However, in Antiquity itself, the texts we call "epyllia" were not considered a coherent genre, which seems to be an innovation of the late 18th century. The contributions in this book not only re-examine some important (and some lesser known) Greek and Latin primary texts, but also critically reconsider the theoretical discourses attached to it, and also sketch their literary and scholarly reception in the Byzantine and Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Modern Age.

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A Short Introduction to the Ancient 'Epyllion'. Manuel Baumbach & Silvio Bar Contributors Abbreviations 1. History and Development of the Term and Concept of the 'Epyllion' Before the Epyllion: Concepts and Texts Virgilio Masciadri On the Origins of the Modern Term 'Epyllion': Some Revisions to a Chapter in the History of Classical Scholarship Stefan Tilg Catullus 64: the Perfect Epyllion? Gail Trimble 2. The Archaic and Pre-Hellenistic Period The Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative Poetry Richard Hunter Demodokos' Song of Ares and Aphrodite in Homer' Odyssey (8.266-366): an Epyllion? - Agonistic Performativity and Cultural Metapoetics Anton Bierl Borderline Experiences with Genre: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite between Epic, Hymn and Epyllic Poetry Manuel Baumbach Rhapsodic Hymns and Epyllia Ivana Petrovic The Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield and The Poetics of Deferral Peter Bing 3. The Hellenistic Period Pindaric Narrative Technique in the Hellenistic Epyllion Christine Luz The Hecale and Hellenistic Conceptions of Short Hexameter Narratives Kathryn Gutzwiller Miniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Small Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24) Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Herakles in Bits and Pieces: Id. 25 in the Corpus Theocriteum Thomas A. Schmitz Achilles at Scyros, and One of his Fans: The Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia (Buc. Gr. 157-158 Gow) Marco Fantuzzi 4. The Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Period " ": The Erotika Pathemata of Parthenius of Nicaea Jacqueline J.H.Klooster A Virgo infelix: Calvus' Io vis-a-vis Other Cow-And-Bull Stories Regina Hoeschele The Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses as Orpheus' Epyllion Ulrich Eigler 5. The Imperial Period The Fast and the Furious: Triphiodorus' Reception of Homer in the Capture of Troy Vincent Tomasso Musaeus, Hero and Leander: Between Epic and Novel Nicola Nina Dummler 'Museum of Words': Christodorus, the Art of Ekphrasis and the Epyllic Genre Silvio Bar The Motif of the Rape of Europa: Intertextuality and Absurdity of the Myth in Epyllion and Epic Insets Peter Kuhlmann 6. The Middle Ages and Beyond 'Epyllion' or 'Short Epic' in the Latin Literature of the Middle Ages? Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann & Peter Stotz Short Mythological Epic in Neo-Latin Literature Martin< Korenjak/i> Robert Burns' Tam O'Shanter: a Lallans Epyllion? Ewen L. Bowie General Bibliography Indexes General Index Index of Passages Discussed

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