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Definition of Epigones
1. epigone [n] - See also: epigone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigones
Literary usage of Epigones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Russian School of Painting by Alexandre Benois, Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1916)
"In addition to these masters, the following two groups of epigones of Romanticism
are noteworthy: ..."
2. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1849)
"H. vol. ii. p. xlix.), are not always very carefully applied. (See Arist Elk.
Nie. iv. 8. § 6.) epigones himself, in a fragment of his play called ..."
3. History of Dogma by Adolf von Harnack, Ebenezer Brown Speirs (1900)
"I. tury that the period of the epigones is excluded. Now, as the orthodoxy of
the epigones in the sixteenth century has its root in this, that the Reformers ..."
4. History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg, Andrew Campbell Armstrong (1897)
"... Kant and the epigones, in which every chapter ended with the inexorable
refrain, " therefore we must go back to Kant," had given the strongest ..."
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