Iambic+verse
51Latin literature — Introduction the body of writings in Latin, primarily produced during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, when Latin was a spoken language. When Rome fell, Latin remained the literary language of the Western medieval world until it was …
52Gaisford Prize — The Gaisford Prize is a prize in the University of Oxford, founded in 1855 in memory of Dr Thomas Gaisford (1779–1855). For most of its history, the prize was awarded for Classical Greek Verse and Prose. The prizes are now the Gaisford Essay… …
53Anapaest — An anapaest or anapest, also called antidactylus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one (as in a na paest); in accentual stress meters it consists of… …
54John Tzetzes — John (Johannes) Tzetzes (Ιωάννης Τζέτζης), (c. 1110 ndash; 1180) was a Byzantine poet and grammarian, known to have lived at Constantinople during the 12th century.Tzetzes was Georgian on his mother s side (and self consciously Georgian [Kazhdan …
55dipody — dipodic /duy pod ik/, adj. /dip euh dee/, n., pl. dipodies. Pros. a group of two feet, esp., in accentual verse, in which one of the two accented syllables bears primary stress and the other bears secondary stress. [1835 45; < LL dipodia < Gk:… …
56terza rima — /tert seuh ree meuh/; It. /terdd tsah rddee mah/, Pros. an Italian form of iambic verse consisting of eleven syllable lines arranged in tercets, the middle line of each tercet rhyming with the first and last lines of the following tercet. [1810… …
57Byzantine literature — may be defined as the Greek literature of the Middle Ages, whether written in the territory of the Byzantine Empire or outside its bordersEncyclopaedia Britannica Greek literature: Byzantine literature ] . It forms the second period in the… …
58Venus Kallipygos — The Callipygian Venus or Venus Kallipygos, ( el. Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος Aphrodite Kallipygos, Aphrodite of the Beautiful Buttocks [The word callipygian is defined as having shapely buttocks by Merriam Webster.] ), is a type of nude female statue of… …
59Mimnermus — Mimnermos was one of several ancient, Greek poets who composed verses about solar eclipses, and there was in fact a total solar eclipse of his home town, Smyrna, on April 6, 648 BC[1] His poetry survives only as a few fragments yet they afford us …
60pentameter — n. 1 a verse of five feet, e.g. English iambic verse of ten syllables. 2 a form of Gk or Latin dactylic verse composed of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable, used in elegiac verse. Etymology: L f. Gk pentametros (as PENTA , METER) …
