epyllion

created by Gone Jackal
(thing) by Gone Jackal (17.6 hr) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Sat Oct 14 2000 at 18:55:23
A 'little epic'. There are many examples surviving from the ancient world, including, among others, the Pseudo-Vergilian Culex and the Pseudo-Homeric 'Battle of Frogs and Mice'.

The topic is generally satiric, and the style much lighter and wittier than actual epic.

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