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Dithyramb

noun

A wildly enthusiastic speech or piece of writing.

(ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus).

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"Dithyramb" Quotes from Famous Books

... not; and whether it is to be judged in itself, or in relation also to the audience,—this raises another question. Be that as it may, Tragedy—as also Comedy—was at first mere improvisation. The one originated with the authors of the Dithyramb, the other with those of the phallic songs, which are still in use in many of our cities. Tragedy advanced by slow degrees; each new element that showed itself was in turn developed. Having passed through many changes, it found its natural form, and ...

— Poetics • Aristotle

... ship-building and dock-yards, but the industry is no longer of anything like its original proportions. The town is an old-fashioned place, and has not escaped the pen of Father Prout, who, in what he calls "manifestly an imitation of that unrivalled dithyramb," The Groves of Blarney—with little of its humours and all its absurdity—signs the attractions of what he styles ...

— The Sunny Side of Ireland - How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway • John O'Mahony and R. Lloyd Praeger

Words linked to "Dithyramb" : piece of writing, Hellenic Republic, written material, Greece, address, speech, hymn, antiquity, writing, Ellas, anthem