Le chant funèbre en l’honneur d’Adonis – un epyllion ?

The paper investigates the literary genre of the Bion’s Ἀδώνιδος ἐπιτάφιος, the Epitaph for Adonis. A brief discussion of the text and of the two analyses devoted to its genre shows that the poet self-consciously blends traits of different genres in order to play with the reader’s expectations. If t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Antje Kolde
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ENS Éditions 2016-06-01
Series:Aitia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/aitia/1504