Hecale

work by Callimachus

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Latin epyllions

  • In Latin literature: Epic and epyllion

    With his Hecale, Callimachus had inaugurated the short, carefully composed hexameter narrative (called epyllion by modern scholars) to replace grand epic. The Hecale had started a convention of insetting an independent story. Catullus inset the story of Ariadne on Naxos into that of the marriage of Peleus…

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