Code
3E027115
Duration
01 October 2015 → 31 July 2021
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Language studies
- Literary studies
Keywords
Late Antiquity
meta-literarity
genre studies
characterization
epic tradition
epyllion
narratology
Project description
The modern term “epyllion” refers to short narrative poetry in hexameters. This project proposes a first comprehensive study of late antique Greek and Latin epyllia. The project focusses on the generic self-presentation of these poems and aims to lay bare the mechanisms of tradition and innovation that allowed the poets constantly to reinvent the essentially “epic” genre of hexameter narrative.