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Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception

Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception

Baumbach, Manuel
Bär, Silvio

Hardcover

Literary CriticismAncient History General

ISBN10: 9004214321
ISBN13: 9789004214323
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 12 2012
Pages: 640
Weight: 2.55
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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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