CONTENTS
A Short Introduction to the Ancient Epyllion ix Manuel Baumbach & Silvio Bär
Contributors xvii Abbreviations xxv
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TERM AND CONCEPT OF THE EPYLLION
Before the Epyllion: Concepts and Texts 3
On the Origins of the Modern "Epyllion": Some Revisions to a Chapter in the History of Classical Scholarship 29 Stefan Tilg
Catullus 64: The Perfect Epyllion? 55
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THE ARCHAIC AND PERIOD
The Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative Poetry 83 Richard Hunter
Demodokos' Song of Ares and Aphrodite in Odyssey (8.266-366): An Epyllion? Agonistic Performativity and Cultural Metapoetics Anton
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Borderline Experiences with Genre: The to Aphrodite between Epic, Hymn and Epyllic Poetry 135 Manuel Baumbach
and Epyllia 149 Petrovic
A The Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield and The Poetics of Deferral 177 Peter Bing
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Pindaric Narrative Technique in the Hellenistic Epyllion 201 Christine Luz
The Hecale and Hellenistic Conceptions of Short Hexameter Narratives 221 Kathryn
Miniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24) 245 Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Herakles in Bits and Pieces: 25 in the Corpus Theocriteum 259 Thomas A. Schmitz
Achilles at Scyros, and One of His Fans: The Epithalamium of Achilles Gr. Gow) 283 Marco Fantuzzi
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THE LATE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND THE AUGUSTAN PERIOD
The Erotika Pathemata of Parthenius of Nicaea 309 J.H. CONTENTS
A Virgo Infelix: Calvus' Io Other Stories 333 Regina Höschele
The Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses as Orpheus' Epyllion .... 355 Ulrich Eigler
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THE IMPERIAL PERIOD
The Fast and the Furious: Triphiodorus' Reception of Homer in the Capture 371 Vincent Tomasso
Musaeus, Hero and Leander. Between Epic and Nicola Nina Dümmler
"Museum of Christodorus, the Art of Ekphrasis and the Epyllic Genre 447 Silvio Bär
The Motif of the Rape of Europa: Intertextuality and Absurdity Myth in Epyllion and Epic Insets 473 Peter Kuhlmann
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THE MIDDLE AGES AND BEYOND
"Epyllion" or "Short Epic" in the Latin Literature Middle Ages? 493 Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann & Peter Stotz
Short Mythological Epic in Neo-Latin Literature 519 Martin Korenjak
Robert Burns' Tarn O'Shanter. A Lallans Epyllion? 537 L.
Bibliography 563
General Index 597 Index Index of Selected Greek Words 639