Epikichlides(68 words)
[German version]
(Ἐπικιχλίδες; Epikichlídes) is the title of an erotic poem attributed to Homer (Ath. 14,639a). Menaechmus associates it with the word for thrush (κίχλη, kíchlē), which suggests a travesty or parody, set in the animal kingdom, of the Homeric epics (cf. Batrachomyomachia). The title may perhaps refer to kichlismoí, which denotes exuberant laughter.
Selzer, Christoph (Frankfurt/Main)
Bibliography
U. v. Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Die Ilias und Homer, 1916, 18, n. 2.
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Selzer, Christoph (Frankfurt/Main),
“Epikichlides”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 13 August 2022 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e332410>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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