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ESSAYS ON EARLY GREEK POETRY

from the third-century C.E. Capture of Troy by Triphiodorus to the eighteenth-century Scottish poem Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns. These seven papers all, in one way or another, suggest that, if there existed an ancient genre of epyllion that was defined as a short narrative epic, such a genre was discarded by the Middle Ages at the latest. This is important because the rejection of a literary tradition is just as illuminating as its continuity. But it also serves as a concluding note of caution to echo the one voiced in the first section of the volume: if the short narrative hexametric poem is not a productive generic category in this later period, perhaps we should re-evaluate our conception of epyllion tout court. This volume consistently emphasises how productive such a reconceptualisation can be.