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Epinikian
Epinikian Ep`i*nik"i*an, a. Epinicial.

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- The epinikion or epinicion (pl.: epinikia or epinicia, Gr**** ἐπινίκιον, from epi-, "on", + nikê, "victory") is a genre of occasional poetry also known...
- leader, script, or rehearsal. In the performance of Gr**** victory odes (epinikia) at post-Game celebrations for winning athletes, the choral singers often...
- lyric poetry. The largest part of his surviving works is the Victory Odes (Epinikia), chorus songs to be sung in the homeland of the winner of the Games upon...
- book of threnoi – "laments" 4 books of epinikia – "victory odes" Of this vast and varied corpus, only the epinikia – odes written to commemorate athletic...
- poetry we are reading." Gr**** lyric poems celebrate athletic victories (epinikia), commemorate the dead, exhort soldiers to valor, and offer religious devotion...
- maidens" hyporchemata – "songs for light dances" enkomia – "songs of praise" epinikia – "victory odes" erotica – "songs of love" The Alexandrian grammarian Didymus...
- woman to do so, but only fragments were published. She also translated the epinikia of Pindar, poems by Sappho and Anacreon, and po****r songs of modern Greece...
- Recorded 1978 at Lukaskirche Dresden. (ETERNA 8 27 199–200) Englund: Epinikia. Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. (FINNLEVY SFX 34) Franck: Symphony; Symphonic...