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Encomium (pl.: encomia) is a
Latin word
deriving from the
Ancient Gr****
enkomion (ἐγκώμιον),
meaning "the
praise of a
person or thing."
Another Latin equivalent...
- In
Praise of Folly, also
translated as The
Praise of
Folly (Latin:
Stultitiae Laus or
Moriae Encomium), is an
essay written in
Latin in 1509 by Desiderius...
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Progymnasmata (Gr**** προγυμνάσματα "fore-exercises";
Latin praeexercitamina) are a
series of
preliminary rhetorical exercises that
began in
ancient Greece...
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Melanippides and the
renowned medical doctor Hippocrates, and Pindar's
enkomion written for
Alexander I of
Macedon may have been
composed at his court...
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Melanippides and the
renowned medical doctor Hippocrates,
while Pindar's
enkomion written for
Alexander I of
Macedon may have been
composed at his court...
- hymn The
dithyramb The
hyporchema And in
later years:
Praise for
people (
Enkomion) Song at a
party or
symposium (Skolion) Song
about victory in an athletic...
- (in the form of the
biographical account or bios and the
panegyric or
enkomion);
hagiographic collections (the
menaia and synaxaria), epistolography,...
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eight volumes A
commentary on Plato's
Timaeus Πλάτωνος ἐγκώμιον (Platōnos
enkōmion);
eulogy to
Plato Περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ Πλάτωνος Πολιτείᾳ μαϑηματικῶς ἐιρημένων...
- his
masterpieces is the
essay The
Praise of
Folly (Gr**** title:
Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin:
Stultitiae Laus,
sometimes translated as "In...
- Many
scholars identify him with
Alexander the Monk, the
author of an
enkomion of the
apostle Barnabas, but
Kazhdan views this
identification as arbitrary...
