Inventing and Deconstructing Epyllion: Some Thoughts on a Taxonomy of Greek Hexameter Poetry

ENGLISH In classical scholarship, the genre ‘epyllion’ is commonly considered to have been invented in the Hellenistic period in order to oppose large-scale archaic epic in terms of both form and content. However, recent research results demonstrate that those Greek texts which are usually regarded...

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Main Author: Silvio Bär
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universität Potsdam 2015-12-01
Series:thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
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Online Access:https://www.thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/article/view/18