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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Manuel Baumbach , Silvio BarPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.163kg ISBN: 9789004214323ISBN 10: 9004214321 Pages: 640 Publication Date: 12 October 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: eng, grc Table of ContentsA Short Introduction to the Ancient 'Epyllion'. Manuel Baumbach & Silvio Bar Contributors Abbreviations 1. History and Development of the Term and Concept of the 'Epyllion' Before the Epyllion: Concepts and Texts Virgilio Masciadri On the Origins of the Modern Term 'Epyllion': Some Revisions to a Chapter in the History of Classical Scholarship Stefan Tilg Catullus 64: the Perfect Epyllion? Gail Trimble 2. The Archaic and Pre-Hellenistic Period The Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative Poetry Richard Hunter Demodokos' Song of Ares and Aphrodite in Homer' Odyssey (8.266-366): an Epyllion? - Agonistic Performativity and Cultural Metapoetics Anton Bierl Borderline Experiences with Genre: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite between Epic, Hymn and Epyllic Poetry Manuel Baumbach Rhapsodic Hymns and Epyllia Ivana Petrovic The Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield and The Poetics of Deferral Peter Bing 3. The Hellenistic Period Pindaric Narrative Technique in the Hellenistic Epyllion Christine Luz The Hecale and Hellenistic Conceptions of Short Hexameter Narratives Kathryn Gutzwiller Miniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Small Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24) Benjamin Acosta-Hughes Herakles in Bits and Pieces: Id. 25 in the Corpus Theocriteum Thomas A. Schmitz Achilles at Scyros, and One of his Fans: The Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia (Buc. Gr. 157-158 Gow) Marco Fantuzzi 4. The Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Period : The Erotika Pathemata of Parthenius of Nicaea Jacqueline J.H.Klooster A Virgo infelix: Calvus' Io vis-a-vis Other Cow-And-Bull Stories Regina Hoeschele The Tenth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses as Orpheus' Epyllion Ulrich Eigler 5. The Imperial Period The Fast and the Furious: Triphiodorus' Reception of Homer in the Capture of Troy Vincent Tomasso Musaeus, Hero and Leander: Between Epic and Novel Nicola Nina Dummler 'Museum of Words': Christodorus, the Art of Ekphrasis and the Epyllic Genre Silvio Bar The Motif of the Rape of Europa: Intertextuality and Absurdity of the Myth in Epyllion and Epic Insets Peter Kuhlmann 6. The Middle Ages and Beyond 'Epyllion' or 'Short Epic' in the Latin Literature of the Middle Ages? Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann & Peter Stotz Short Mythological Epic in Neo-Latin Literature Martin< Korenjak/i> Robert Burns' Tam O'Shanter: a Lallans Epyllion? Ewen L. Bowie General Bibliography Indexes General Index Index of Passages DiscussedReviewsThis is an excellent collection of detailed and at times adventurous studies of a large range of texts , Calum Maciver, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.12.02 Author InformationManuel Baumbach, Dr. phil. (1997) in Classics, University of Heidelberg, is Professor of Classics at the Ruhr-University Bochum. His research focuses on Hellenistic Poetry and the Second Sophistic. He has published books on Lucian and he is the co-editor of Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Poseidippus (2004), Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic (2007), and Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (2010). Silvio Bar, Dr. phil. (2008) in Classics, University of Zurich, is a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Zurich. His research focuses, inter alia, on Greek epic poetry of the imperial period. He has co-edited (together with Manuel Baumbach) Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic (2007), and is currently writing a book-length study on the Greek hero Herakles. Contributors: Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Silvio Bar, Manuel Baumbach, Anton Bierl, Peter Bing, Ewen Bowie, Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Nicola Dummler, Ulrich Eigler, Marco Fantuzzi, Kathryn Gutzwiller, Regina Hoeschele, Richard Hunter, Jacqueline Klooster, Martin Korenjak, Peter Kuhlmann, Christine Luz, Virgilio Masciadri, Ivana Petrovic, Thomas A. Schmitz, Peter Stotz, Stefan Tilg, Vincent Tomasso, and Gail Trimble. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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