Name: Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception
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Author: Baumbach, Manuel ; Bär, Silvio
ISBN: 9789004214323

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

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Brill

Author

Baumbach, Manuel ; Bär, Silvio

Pages

668

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.9 x 16.5 x 4.1 cm

Weight

1.16 kg.

ISBN

9004214321

ISBN13

9789004214323

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

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.