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Definition of Dithyramb
1. Noun. A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing.
2. Noun. (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus).
Geographical relationships: Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic
Category relationships: Antiquity
Definition of Dithyramb
1. n. A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain.
Definition of Dithyramb
1. Noun. A choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus. ¹
2. Noun. A poem or oration in the same style. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dithyramb
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dithyramb
Literary usage of Dithyramb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tragic Drama of the Greeks by Arthur Elam Haigh (1896)
"Later History of the dithyramb. Hitherto the progress of the dithyramb has been
... The choral branch is henceforth known as the ‘dithyramb,' while the ..."
2. Greek Melic Poets by Herbert Weir Smyth (1900)
"PRIMITIVE dithyramb. Represented by ARCHILOCHOS and ... OLD dithyramb (from about
550 to about 475). ... MIDDLE dithyramb (from about 475 to about 400). ..."
3. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"Drama sprang from the species of lyric poem called the dithyramb. ... It appears,
then, that the dithyramb was originally a convivial song, ..."
4. A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of by Frank Byron Jevons (1894)
"The proper, and presumably the original, subject of the dithyramb was the birth
of Dionysus, as wo learn from Plato (Laws, iii. 700), though eventually any ..."
5. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"Arion was chiefly known in Greece as the perfecter of the dithyramb. The dithyramb,
as a song of Bacchanalian festivals, is doubtless of great antiquity; ..."
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