Manuel 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 Bär, 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 Bär, Manuel Baumbach, Anton Bierl, Peter Bing, Ewen Bowie, Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Nicola Dümmler, Ulrich Eigler, Marco Fantuzzi, Kathryn Gutzwiller, Regina Höschele, 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.

"This 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

• A Short Introduction to the Ancient 'Epyllion'. Manuel Baumbach & Silvio BärContributorsAbbreviations1. History and Development of the Term and Concept of the ‘Epyllion’Before the Epyllion: Concepts and TextsVirgilio MasciadriOn the Origins of the Modern Term ‘Epyllion’: Some Revisions to a Chapter in the History of Classical ScholarshipStefan TilgCatullus 64: the Perfect Epyllion?Gail Trimble2. The Archaic and Pre-Hellenistic PeriodThe Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative PoetryRichard HunterDemodokos’ Song of Ares and Aphrodite in Homer’ Odyssey (8.266-366): an Epyllion? – Agonistic Performativity and Cultural MetapoeticsAnton BierlBorderline Experiences with Genre: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite between Epic, Hymn and Epyllic PoetryManuel BaumbachRhapsodic Hymns and EpylliaIvana PetrovicThe Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield and The Poetics of DeferralPeter Bing3. The Hellenistic PeriodPindaric Narrative Technique in the Hellenistic EpyllionChristine LuzThe Hecale and Hellenistic Conceptions of Short Hexameter NarrativesKathryn GutzwillerMiniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Small Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24)Benjamin Acosta-HughesHerakles in Bits and Pieces: Id. 25 in the Corpus TheocriteumThomas A. SchmitzAchilles at Scyros, and One of his Fans: The Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia (Buc. Gr. 157-158 Gow)Marco Fantuzzi4. The Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Period“εἰς ἔπη καὶ ἐλεγείας ἀνάγειν”: The Erotika Pathemata of Parthenius of NicaeaJacqueline J.H.KloosterA Virgo infelix: Calvus’ Io vis-à-vis Other Cow-And-Bull StoriesRegina HöscheleThe Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Orpheus’ EpyllionUlrich Eigler5. The Imperial PeriodThe Fast and the Furious: Triphiodorus’ Reception of Homer in the Capture of TroyVincent TomassoMusaeus, Hero and Leander: Between Epic and NovelNicola Nina Dümmler‘Museum of Words’: Christodorus, the Art of Ekphrasis and the Epyllic GenreSilvio BärThe Motif of the Rape of Europa: Intertextuality and Absurdity of the Myth in Epyllion and Epic InsetsPeter Kuhlmann6. The Middle Ages and Beyond‘Epyllion’ or ‘Short Epic’ in the Latin Literature of the Middle Ages?Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann & Peter StotzShort Mythological Epic in Neo-Latin LiteratureMartin< Korenjak/i>Robert Burns’ Tam O’Shanter: a Lallans Epyllion?Ewen L. BowieGeneral BibliographyIndexesGeneral IndexIndex of Passages Discussed

Manuel 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 Bär, 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 Bär, Manuel Baumbach, Anton Bierl, Peter Bing, Ewen Bowie, Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Nicola Dümmler, Ulrich Eigler, Marco Fantuzzi, Kathryn Gutzwiller, Regina Höschele, 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.

"This 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

• A Short Introduction to the Ancient 'Epyllion'. Manuel Baumbach & Silvio BärContributorsAbbreviations1. History and Development of the Term and Concept of the ‘Epyllion’Before the Epyllion: Concepts and TextsVirgilio MasciadriOn the Origins of the Modern Term ‘Epyllion’: Some Revisions to a Chapter in the History of Classical ScholarshipStefan TilgCatullus 64: the Perfect Epyllion?Gail Trimble2. The Archaic and Pre-Hellenistic PeriodThe Songs of Demodocus: Compression and Extension in Greek Narrative PoetryRichard HunterDemodokos’ Song of Ares and Aphrodite in Homer’ Odyssey (8.266-366): an Epyllion? – Agonistic Performativity and Cultural MetapoeticsAnton BierlBorderline Experiences with Genre: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite between Epic, Hymn and Epyllic PoetryManuel BaumbachRhapsodic Hymns and EpylliaIvana PetrovicThe Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield and The Poetics of DeferralPeter Bing3. The Hellenistic PeriodPindaric Narrative Technique in the Hellenistic EpyllionChristine LuzThe Hecale and Hellenistic Conceptions of Short Hexameter NarrativesKathryn GutzwillerMiniaturizing the Huge: Hercules on a Small Scale (Theocritus Idylls 13 and 24)Benjamin Acosta-HughesHerakles in Bits and Pieces: Id. 25 in the Corpus TheocriteumThomas A. SchmitzAchilles at Scyros, and One of his Fans: The Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia (Buc. Gr. 157-158 Gow)Marco Fantuzzi4. The Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Period“εἰς ἔπη καὶ ἐλεγείας ἀνάγειν”: The Erotika Pathemata of Parthenius of NicaeaJacqueline J.H.KloosterA Virgo infelix: Calvus’ Io vis-à-vis Other Cow-And-Bull StoriesRegina HöscheleThe Tenth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses as Orpheus’ EpyllionUlrich Eigler5. The Imperial PeriodThe Fast and the Furious: Triphiodorus’ Reception of Homer in the Capture of TroyVincent TomassoMusaeus, Hero and Leander: Between Epic and NovelNicola Nina Dümmler‘Museum of Words’: Christodorus, the Art of Ekphrasis and the Epyllic GenreSilvio BärThe Motif of the Rape of Europa: Intertextuality and Absurdity of the Myth in Epyllion and Epic InsetsPeter Kuhlmann6. The Middle Ages and Beyond‘Epyllion’ or ‘Short Epic’ in the Latin Literature of the Middle Ages?Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann & Peter StotzShort Mythological Epic in Neo-Latin LiteratureMartin< Korenjak/i>Robert Burns’ Tam O’Shanter: a Lallans Epyllion?Ewen L. BowieGeneral BibliographyIndexesGeneral IndexIndex of Passages Discussed