Definition of Epigonic

1. epigone [adj] - See also: epigone

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigonic

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

Literary usage of Epigonic

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

1. Corpus Poeticum Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue from the by Frederick York Powell, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1883)
"epigonic POETRY. AN after-math of verse on legendary or didactic subjects, ... Most of the stories are late continuations of the epigonic stories of the ..."

2. Corpus Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, from the by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Edda Sæmunder, Frederick York Powell (1883)
"Most of the stories are late continuations of the epigonic stories of the Sigfred cycle in Book v ; the link that binds them to this cycle being the birth ..."

3. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"The third part is perhaps epigonic, excellent and yet an aftermath. Only a reading of this Saga can bring any realization of its power of narrative and ..."

4. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"... the genius of that school of epigonic Greek poetry that had made its home in the Alexandria of the Ptolemies, a school which was learned, meticulous and ..."

5. The Fortnightly Review (1872)
"... lies at the same time the cause for their frequently unjust contempt of epigonic aspirations and the bitterness of their critical utterances. ..."

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