Brill's companion to Greek and Latin epyllion and its reception / edited by Manuel Baumbach and Silvio Bär.

• Superior document: [Brill's companions in classical studies],
• TeilnehmendeR: Baumbach, Manuel.; Bär, Silvio.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (666 p.)
• Notes: ISSN 1877-3357.

In classical scholarship of the past two centuries, the term “epyllion” was used to label short hexametric texts mainly ascribable to the Hellenistic period (Greek) or the Neoterics (Latin). Apart from their brevity, characteristics such as a predilection for episodic narration or female characters...