| The epyllion fad, for example, thrived in Elizabeth's late masterful reign, but its tremors, like its muse, endured long after the turn of the halcyon sixteenth century. |
| Perhaps the finest specimen of this hexametric renascence, however, was Charles Kingsley's mythopoetic epyllion Andromeda. |
| How, given the institutional emphasis on the primacy of Vergil, did Ovidian epyllion become the preferred form of this period's poetry? |
| This is not in any sense a lyric poem, but an epyllion, or little epic. |
| A picture of Bacchus and Ariadne had been descnbed in Catullus's epyllion, or mini-epic, The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis. |
| Other rhetorical devices cultivated in the epyllion are the long apostrophe, and the sentence or wise saying. |
