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New. 1853995258. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED-256 pages--Originally published in 1931, this presents a chronological account of "epyllion" in English. --"Epyllion" is the term coined by modern scholars for a relatively short poem on a mythological theme otherwise appropriate to longer epic. One of its recurrent characteristics is "ekphrasis", the telling of one myth encapsulated within the context of another, and the two thematically or symbolically linked to offer subtle comparison and contrast. The most persistent modes of "ekphrasis" are narrative by a character form, or the description of myth depicted on a work of art used in the context of the "outer" myth. The phenomenon has its origins in Homeric epic (the shield of Achilles) but was refined in the Hellenistic period by Callimachus and Theocritus, and taken up by the neoterics (Catullus 64). Its methods were absorbed back into long epic and form a dominant characteristic of Ovid's interweaving of myths in the "Metamorphoses". This book was originally published in 1931, and presents a chronological account of "epyllion" in English. --TOC: I. Introductory * II. The Greek and Latin Epyllia * III. The Epic Idyll. Theocritus, Moschus and Bion * IV. The Hecale of Callimachus * V. Euphorion of Chalcis and Perthenius of Nicæa * VI. Catullus and His School * VII. The Culex * VIII. The Ciris and the School of Cornelius Gallus * IX. The Aristæus of Vergil * X. The Metamorphoses of Ovid * I. The Construction of the Poem * XI. The Metamorphoses of Ovid * II. The Ovidian Epyllion * XII. Epyllion and Grand Epic * * Note * I. The Order of the Columns on the Rainer Board * II. Lost Greek Epyllia * III. The Culex and the Aristæus * IV. Metrical Tests of the Authorship of the Culux and Ciris * V. Narrative Elegy and Epyllion * VI. Table of Construction of the Metamorphoses * Bibliography * Index--with a bonus offer--
