Code
3E027115
Duration
01 October 2015 → 31 July 2021
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Language studies
- Literary studies
Keywords
Late Antiquity
meta-literarity
genre studies
characterization
epic tradition
epyllion
narratology
Greek
Latin
Comparative
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Genre
Africa
Middle East
Southern Europe
Literary studies
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.