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Definition of Prosodion
1. Noun. Religious music used in a procession.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosodion
Literary usage of Prosodion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments by Bacchylides, Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1905)
"The This form is the prosodion, or 'song of approach'; a *" '' very old kind of
processional hymn, chanted by a chorus in moving towards the temple or altar ..."
2. Greek Lyric Poetry: A Complete Collection of the Surviving Passages from the by George Stanley Farnell (1891)
"25, from а prosodion. VII. EÏ; opo; XTX Stob. Flor, cviii. ... Ie 26, also from
a prosodion, and the commentators agree that it belongs to the same poem as ..."
3. A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian by Wilmer Cave France Wright (1907)
"But Eumelus has a place in the history of melic as the author of a prosodion
which he composed for a sacred embassy of the Messenians. ..."
4. A Short History of Greek Literature from Homer to Julian by Wilmer Cave France Wright (1907)
"But Eumelus has a place in the history of melic as the author of a prosodion
which he composed for a sacred embassy of the Messenians. ..."
5. An Abridged History of Greek Literature by Alfred Croiset, Maurice Croiset (1904)
"For instance, the prosodion, or processional march, ... prosodion executed by
young girls, were possibly in use before the period of the ornate lyric; ..."
6. A Critical History of the Language and Literature of Antient [sic] Greece by William Mure (1854)
"The prosodion was the hymn sung by the choristers in their ... The prosodion,
accordingly, is occasionally classed under the general head of ..."
7. Belle Assemblée: Or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; Containing Interesting (1806)
"The prosodion, or supplication, was said with a hymn, when the sacrifices were
brought towards the altar. ..."
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