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Contents 5 A Short Introduction to the Ancient Epyllion 9 Contributors 17 Abbreviations 25 Part 1 History and Development of the Term and Concept of the Epyllion 27 Before the Epyllion: Concepts and Texts 29 On the Origins of the Modern Term “Epyllion”: Some Revisions to a Chapter in the History of Classical Scholarship 55 Catullus 64: The Perfect Epyllion? 81 Part 2 The Archaic and Pre-Hellenistic Period 107 The Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative Poetry 109 Demodokos’ Song of Ares and Aphrodite in Homer’s Odyssey (8.266–366): An Epyllion? Agonistic Performativity and Cultural Metapoetics 137 Borderline Experiences with Genre: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite between Epic, Hymn and Epyllic Poetry 161 Rhapsodic Hymns and Epyllia 175 A Proto-Epyllion? The Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield and The Poetics of Deferral 203 Part 3 The Hellenistic Period 225 Pindaric Narrative Technique in the Hellenistic Epyllion 227 The Hecale and Hellenistic Conceptions of Short Hexameter Narratives 247 Miniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Small Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24) 271 Herakles in Bits and Pieces: Id. 25 in the Corpus Theocriteum 285 Achilles at Scyros, and One of His F

Author

Baumbach, Manuel; Bär, Silvio; Bar, Silvio

Published

2012

Language

EN