epyllionn.

Brit.

/ᵻˈpɪlɪən/,

/ɛˈpɪlɪən/, U.S.

/əˈpɪljən/,

/əˈpɪliˌɑn/

Forms: Plural epyllia /-ɪə/.

Etymology: Greek ἐπύλλιον diminutive of ἔπος epos n.

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 cent.: see Class. Jrnl. XLIX (1953–4), 111 ff.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > epic poem > miniature epic

epyllion1876

1876 R. Ellis Comm. Catullus 228 Unfortunately the contemporaneous epyllia, the Io of Calvus, the Smyrna of Cinna, the Glaucus of Cornificius, have perished.

1890 A. 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).

1895 J. W. Mackail Lat. 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.

1931 M. M. Crump (title) The epyllion from Theocritus to Ovid.

1949 Oxf. Classical 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.

1952 C. 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	epyllion
释义	epyllionn. Brit. /ᵻˈpɪlɪən/, /ɛˈpɪlɪən/, U.S. /əˈpɪljən/, /əˈpɪliˌɑn/ Forms: Plural epyllia /-ɪə/. Etymology: Greek ἐπύλλιον diminutive of ἔπος epos n. 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 cent.: see Class. Jrnl. XLIX (1953–4), 111 ff. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > epic poem > miniature epic epyllion1876 1876 R. Ellis Comm. Catullus 228 Unfortunately the contemporaneous epyllia, the Io of Calvus, the Smyrna of Cinna, the Glaucus of Cornificius, have perished. 1890 A. 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). 1895 J. W. Mackail Lat. 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. 1931 M. M. Crump (title) The epyllion from Theocritus to Ovid. 1949 Oxf. Classical 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. 1952 C. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1876
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