panegyrist
71Panegyricus — Panegyricus, griech., eigentlich Rede, die vor einer festlichen Volksversammlung gehalten wird, daher Lobrede; Panegyrist, Lobredner …
72Constantine I — Constantinian /kon steuhn tin ee euhn/, adj. /kon steuhn teen , tuyn / 1. (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus) ( the Great ) A.D. 288? 337, Roman emperor 324 337: named Constantinople as the new capital; legally sanctioned Christian worship.… …
73Abū Tammām — ▪ Syrian poet in full Abū Tammām Ḥabīb Ibn Aws born 804, near Damascus [now in Syria] died c. 845, , Mosul, Iraq poet and editor of an anthology of early Arabic poems known as the Ḥamāsah. Abū Tammām changed his Christian father s… …
74Ahmet Paşa Bursali — ▪ Turkish author born , Edirne?, Ottoman Empire died 1496/97, Bursa one of the most important figures in 15th century Turkish literature. Born into a prominent family, Ahmet Paşa received a classical Islāmic education and was… …
75Akhṭal, al- — ▪ Umayyad poet in full Ghiyāth ibn Ghawth ibn al Ṣalt al Akhṭal born c. 640, Al Ḥīrah, Mesopotamia, or the Syrian Desert died 710 poet of the Umayyad period (661–750), esteemed for his perfection of Arabic poetic form in the old Bedouin… …
76ancient Rome — ▪ ancient state, Europe, Africa, and Asia Introduction the state centred on the city of Rome. This article discusses the period from the founding of the city and the regal period, which began in 753 BC, through the events leading to the… …
77Chagatai literature — the body of written works produced in Chagatai, a classical Turkic literary language of Central Asia. Chagatai literature took shape after the conversion of the Mongol Golden Horde to Islam, a process completed under the 14th century… …
78Corippus, Flavius Cresconius — ▪ Latin poet flourished 6th century AD important Latin epic poet and panegyrist. Of African origin, Corippus migrated to Constantinople. His Johannis, an epic poem in eight books, treats the campaign conducted against the insurgent… …
79Daqīqī — ▪ Persian poet in full Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Daqīqī died c. 976–981, Ṭūs, Iran poet, one of the most important figures in early Persian poetry. Very little is known about Daqīqī s life. A panegyrist, he wrote poems praising …
80Nefʾi — ▪ Ottoman poet pseudonym of Ömer, also called Nefʾi of Erzurum born c. 1572, Hasankale, Ottoman Empire died 1635, Constantinople one of the greatest classical Ottoman poets and one of the most famous satirists and panegyrists in… …
