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epyllion

(ɪˈpɪlɪən)
n, pl -lia (-lɪə)
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a miniature epic
[C19: from Greek, diminutive of epos]
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Roscoe Addison Small, Melchiori, and others have shown that The Insatiate Countess contains many passages that closely echo both Hiren and Barksted's other epyllion, Mirrha, the Mother of Adonis.
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Among their topics are classical pieces: fragmenting genres in medieval England, the devouring maw: complexities of classical genre in Milton's Paradise Lost, Georgic as genre: the scholarly reception of Vergil in mid-18th-century Britain, the Elizabethan epyllion: from constructed classical genre to 20th-century genre propre, and Homer undone: Homeric scholarship and the invention of female epic.
It is very easy for writers in various genres to fall into a "tragic mode." Attis in Catullus' epyllion 63, castrated and now a woman, faces the horrors of having done an act which, in a sane state, he never would have dreamed of:
See also all of analogy, metaphor, allegory, little epic (epyllion, the double-plot), and a dozen other things.
35 we also see Catullus's poet-friend Caecilius wTiting (probably) an epyllion on the Mater Magna.
Syphilis, an epyllion written in Virgilian dactylic hexameter and dedicated to Cardinal Pietro Bembo, was a 16th-century best-seller: by 1935 there were over a hundred editions, including 15 in Italian and seven in English.
Livrea), the Teubner edition of this poet's work, the 343-line hexameter epyllion on Hero and Leander.