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epyllion|ɛˈpɪlɪən|
Pl. epyllia |-ɪə|.
[Gr. ἐπύλλιον dim. of ἔπος epos.]
In classical use: see quot. 1949. Also applied to post-classical poems of short or moderate extent resembling an epic in style or matter; a miniature epic.
The word seems to have been revived by German scholars in the mid-19th c.: see Class. Jrnl. XLIX (1953–4), 111 ff.
1876R. Ellis Commentary Catullus 228 Unfortunately the contemporaneous epyllia, the Io of Calvus, the Smyrna of Cinna, the Glaucus of Cornificius, have perished. 1890A. S. Wilkins Rom. Lit. 75 The fashion at this time was to substitute for long and tedious epics brief and highly finished pictures of episodes or idylls (epyllia). 1895J. W. Mackail Latin Lit. II. i. 104 Pieces in hexameter verse, belonging broadly to the class of the epyllion, or ‘little epic’, which was invented as a convenient term to include short poems in the epic metre that were not definitely pastorals either in subject or treatment. 1931M. M. Crump (title) The epyllion from Theocritus to Ovid. 1949Oxf. Class. Dict. 335/1 Epyllion, a literary type popular from Theocritus to Ovid, was a narrative poem of about 100 to 600 hexameters; the subject was usually taken from the life of a mythical hero or heroine, the love motif being prominent in later epyllia. 1952C. S. Lewis Hero & Leander 24 Marlowe's success is most easily seen if we compare him with other sixteenth-century specimens of the erotic epyllion. |