Definition of Epigoni

1. epigonus [n] - See also: epigonus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigoni

epiglottidean
epiglottidectomy
epiglottides
epiglottiditis
epiglottis
epiglottises
epiglottitis
epiglycanin
epignathous
epignathus
epigon
epigonation
epigonations
epigone
epigones
epigoni (current term)
epigonic
epigonism
epigonisms
epigonous
epigons
epigonus
epigram
epigrammatic
epigrammatical
epigrammatically
epigrammatism
epigrammatisms
epigrammatist
epigrammatists

Literary usage of Epigoni

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest. With by William Smith (1897)
"... and the epigoni. § 7. The Trojan War as related in the Iliad. 8 8. Later additions. § 9. Return of the Grecian heroes from Troy. ..."

2. The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of by Charles Mills Gayley, Thomas Bulfinch (1893)
"The epigoni.2 — Such was the fall of the house of ... The descendants (epigoni) of the former Seven thus renewed the war against Thebes. ..."

3. Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, During the Middle of the Fourth by Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Jean Denis Barbié du Bocage (1825)
"When every thing was ripe for the enterprise,* these young princes, known by the name of epigoni, that is, the Successors, among whom appeared Diomed, ..."

4. Mathematics and Physical Science in Classical Antiquity by Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1922)
"8 The epigoni FOR all his greatness, Hipparchus shows unmistakable signs of the decadence which characterizes the second and the first centuries before ..."

5. The 'Seven Against Thebes' of Aeschylus, by Aeschylus, Arthur Woollgar Verrall (1887)
"The Expedition of the epigoni. As to the immediate result of the Achaean attack the legend of Aeschylus, as it is foreshown by the hints and anticipations ..."

6. Renaissance in Italy by John Addington Symonds (1888)
"CHAPTER X. • THE epigoni. Full Development and Decline of Painting—Exhaustion of the old Motives—Relation of Lionardo to ..."

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