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Amoebaean singing is a type of
singing competition originating in
Ancient Greece. In it, a
first party sings according to a
topic and
verse structure...
- written, and so date to
about 42 BC. Such
poetry as
verses 60–107 is
called amoebaean (or amoebean) (ἀμοιβαία ἀοιδά) from ἀμοιβή ('interchange'), and Virgil...
- po****ted by and
large with
herdsmen imagined conversing and
performing amoebaean singing in
rural settings,
whether suffering or
embracing revolutionary...
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mixing with Jay-Z po****rized the
genre further.
United States portal Amoebaean singing Flyting,
contests consisting of the
exchange of insults, often...
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poems consist of singing-matches,
conducted according to the
rules of
amoebaean poetry, in
which the
second singer takes the
subject chosen by the first...
- one of his book of ten
pastoral poems known as the Eclogues. It is an
amoebaean poem in
which a
herdsman Meliboeus recounts a
contest between the shepherd...
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Alexandrian Pleiad.
Their works have perished. A
cruder kind of drama, the
amoebaean verse, or
bucolic mime,
developed into the only pure
stream of genial...
- tibi... – The
Reconciliation of Two
Lovers –
Often referred to as an "
Amoebaean" ode (from the Gr**** αμείβω – to exchange), it describes, in graceful...
- and VII).
Eclogue II (featuring an
amoebaean song contest) and
Eclogue VI (which
relates to an
aborted amoebaean song contest),
providing a
middle frame...
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pairs exhibit parallelism, that is, each pair is a
miniature example of
amoebaean singing, of the kind
found also in
Eclogues 3, 5, 7, and 8. The first...
