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Epic & Epyllion - Syllabus

  • What is Epyllion?
  • Greek Epyllion
  • Catullus' carmina docta
  • Catullus 64 and Narrative Theory
  • The Shadow of Callimachus: Catullus 65 and 66
  • Catullus, Gender, Genre
  • The Appendix Virgiliana and the Ciris
  • The Ciris, Metapoetry, Didactic and Epic
  • Putting the Epyllion in Epic: Ovid Metamorphoses 8
  • Excerpting Homer: Virgil Aeneid 9
  • Virgil Aeneid 9: Genre, Gender, Romance
  • Ecphrasis: A Marker of Epyllion?
  • Aristaeus, the Coma Berenices, the Bees and the Georgics
  • Orpheus and Eurydice: Walking, Metapoetics and Gallus
  • A cow and bull story: Moschus Europa and Ovid Metamorphoses 2
  • Ovid's Metamorphoses and Polyphony of Genre
  • Back to the beginning: Statius' Hypsipyle and the Hecale
  • Statius Thebaid: Walking in the Footsteps of the Epic Tradition