As nouns the difference between epic and epyllion
is that epic is an extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity or demigod (heroic epic) or other legendary or traditional hero while epyllion is a "little epic".
As an initialism EPIC
is explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
As an adjective epic
is of, or relating to, an epic.
epic
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(computing) Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing.
(electronics) Etched and Polycrystalline carried IC.
(electronics) Epitaxial Integrated Circuit.
(legal) Estates and Protected Individuals Code.
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epyllion
English
Noun
(epyllia)
(literary) a "little epic".
(literary) A brief narrative poem with a romantic or mythological theme.
Usage notes
It refers primarily to the type of erotic and mythological long elegy of which Ovid remains the master; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid. An example of a classical epyllion may be seen in the story of Nisus and Euryalus in Book IX of The Aeneid .
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