epyllion
/ɪˈpɪlɪən
/ /ɛˈpɪlɪən/noun (plural epyllia /ɪˈpɪlɪə/ /ɛˈpɪlɪə/)
A narrative poem that resembles an epic poem in style, but which is notably shorter.This meditation is complicated by the fact that 'Lucrece' is an epyllion, a hybrid genre characterized both by its deployment of vivid description and by its treatment of epic subjects....
- Perhaps the finest specimen of this hexametric renascence, however, was Charles Kingsley's mythopoetic epyllion 'Andromeda'.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Greek epullion, diminutive of epos 'word, song', from eipein 'say'.
Rhymes
- post-neuritic
- post-Newtonian
- post-Nicene
- post-nominal
- postnoon
- post-note
- postnotum
- post-nuclear
- postnuptial
- post-nuptially
- post oak
- post-obit
- post-obituary
- postocular
- postoesophageal
- post office
- post-office address
- post-office annuity
- post office box
- post-office car
- post office directory
- post office insurance
- post-office order
- post office packet
- post-officer