Lexicographical Neighbors of Skolia
Literary usage of Skolia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Classical Greek Literature by John Pentland Mahaffy (1895)
"In fact, Pindar's lighter effusions seem to differ only in subject, not in style,
from his solemn odes ; and the prominent subject in the skolia seems to ..."
2. A history of classical Greek literature by John Pentland Mahaffy (1883)
"In fact, Pindar's lighter effusions seem to differ only in subject, not in style,
from his solemn odes ; and the prominent subject in the skolia seems to ..."
3. Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments by Bacchylides, Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1905)
"LIGHTER VERSE. of Pindar, indeed, which are classed as 'skolia' are erotic. ...
spond in class with Pindar's 'skolia.' Of the other nine forms in which ..."
4. Hellenic Civilization by George Willis Botsford (1915)
"They were called skolia (crooked) on account probably of a permissible freedom
or irregularity of metre. ..."
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