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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Epyllion
An epyllion is a brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme.
Epyllion ” is a Role Playing Group for those lovers of historical-fiction novels and they desire to write one.
Epyllion: A Day In Athens [R&P.S] The Heroic Years (R&P.S) The Storm of War (R&P.S) The Golden Age (R&P.S) Epyllion: The Pilgrims of Muses [NS]
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Epyllion   (128 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 839
Epyllion Group will sponsor the national cricket team for the ICC Champions Trophy in India, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) officially announced yesterday.
The leading textile manufacturer Epyllion will pay Tk 15 lakh for the first three qualifying matches, informed BCB officials at a press conference at the NSC conference room.
Welcoming Epyllion for coming forward to sponsor the national team, BCB general secretary Mahbub Anam said that the board had struggled to find a sponsor as no telecom company, bank and soft drinks, electronics or automobile manufacturers other than tournament sponsors Hutch, Scotia Bank, Pepsi, LG and Hero Honda are allowed to sponsor the teams.
www.thedailystar.net /2006/10/05/d61005040627.htm   (313 words)

  
 The Epyllion from Theocritus to Ovid (Bristol Classical Paperbacks.) by M. Marjorie Crump
"Epyllion" is the term coined by modern scholars for a relatively short poem on a mythological theme otherwise appropriate to longer epic.
One of its recurrent characteristics is "ekphrasis", the telling of one myth encapsulated within the context of another, and the two thematically or symbolically linked to offer subtle comparison and contrast.
This book was originally published in 1931, and presents a chronological account of "epyllion" in English.
www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/Epyllion_from_Theocritus_to_Ovid_(Bristol_Classical_Paperbacks.)-1853995258.html   (256 words)

  
 Definition of epyllion - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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  The Whithorn Trust explore the archaeology and history of Whithorn and examine its role in the evolution of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
His material includes Bede's eight-century Ecclesiastical History, and other documentary sources, Northumbrian, Irish, Scottish and Welsh, together with evidence based on place-names and their ditribution.
Winifred MacQueen contributes the first ever English translation of a late eigth-century Latin epyllion on Nynia, the Miracula Nynie Episcopi and a new translation of Ailred's twelfth-century Vita Niniani.
A supplement sets the subject in the context of recent research, and sheds a new light on the surviving evidence.
www.whithorn.com /whithorn-trust-publications.asp   (490 words)

  
 Epyllion
Epyllion ” is a Role Playing Group for those lovers of historical-fiction novels and they desire to write one.
Epyllion: A Day In Athens [R&P.S] The Heroic Years (R&P.S) The Storm of War (R&P.S) The Golden Age (R&P.S) Epyllion: The Pilgrims of Muses [NS]
Epyllion’s Member Plaque is now ready and posted!
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Group/164145   (223 words)

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