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Definition of Rhapsodists
1. rhapsodist [n] - See also: rhapsodist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhapsodists
Literary usage of Rhapsodists
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)
"Iliad and Odyssey recited to public companies by the rhapsodists. § 6. A standard
text of the poems first ... They were preserved by the rhapsodists. § 10. ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"To the early rhapsodists mainly belongs the credit of the wide diffusion of the
Homeric poems throughout the Greek world. They themselves were held in ..."
3. An Abridged History of Greek Literature by Alfred Croiset, Maurice Croiset (1904)
"CHAPTER IV THE CYCLIC POETS AND THE rhapsodists 1. Epic Poetry after Homer.
The Cycle.1 2. ... The rhapsodists. 3. Certain Heroic Epics in Particular. 4. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... for there were figures not exactly agreeing with the law ; a similitude of it
would therefore be easily adapted by the Grecian rhapsodists. ..."
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