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epinician — 1. adjective Of, related to, or resembling a certain type of Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete 2. noun A Greek ode in honor of a victorious athlete … Wiktionary
epinician — a. in celebration of victory. ♦ epinicion, n. song of victory or triumph … Dictionary of difficult words
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ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… … Universalium
Bacchylides — /beuh kil i deez /, n. fl. 5th century B.C., Greek poet. * * * ▪ Greek lyric poet born c. 510 BC, Ceos [Cyclades, Greece] Greek lyric poet, nephew of the poet Simonides (Simonides of Ceos) and a younger contemporary of the Boeotian poet Pindar … Universalium
Pindaric ode — Pros. an ode consisting of several units, each of which is composed of a strophe and an antistrophe of identical form followed by a contrasting epode. Also called regular ode. [1630 40] * * * Ceremonious poem in the manner of Pindar, who employed … Universalium
Ibycus — (Ancient Greek: Polytonic|Ἴβυκος) (6th century BC), of Rhegium in Italy, was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria. The extant fragments of his work… … Wikipedia
Pindar — For other uses, see Pindar (disambiguation). Pindar, Roman copy of Greek 5th century BC bust (Museo Archeologica Nazionale, Naples) Pindar (Ancient Greek: Πίνδαρος, Pindaros, pronounced [píndaros]; Latin: Pindarus … Wikipedia
Philipp August Böckh — (November 24, 1785 August 3, 1867), was a German classical scholar and antiquarian.He was born in Karlsruhe, and educated at the gymnasium there, leaving for the University of Halle (1803), where he studied theology. F.A. Wolf was teaching there … Wikipedia
Glenn W. Most — Glenn Warren Most (* 12. Juni 1952) ist ein US amerikanischer Altphilologe. Most studierte zwischen 1968 und 1972 in Harvard. 1972 schloss er dort mit dem B.A. summa cum laude in Classics (Latin) ab. Bis 1973 folgte ein Masterstudiengang am… … Deutsch Wikipedia
