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- In classical studies the term epyllion (Ancient Gr****: 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...
- 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...
- 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"...
- sung in most families. Noted Tamil scholar S. K. Ramarajan wrote a noted epyllion, Meganadham, the tragedy of Indrajit, known for its characterisation of...
- 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...
-  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 b****eeping by Aristaeus and the...
- 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...