skolion
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun An ancient Greek drinking- or banquet-song, sung to the lyre by the guests in turn.
Examples
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Our first piece is a skolion for the Athenian lovers Aristogeiton and Harmodius, who assassinated the tyrant Hipparchus in 514 BCE, using swords they had concealed in ceremonial myrtle wreaths.
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He banged the table in tune with the skolion, singing loudly, "I'm married, married, married to Eurydike!"
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Young Bacchylides, whom I had left behind to get on with his schooling, had made a skolion on the music master, sung it too loudly, and had a beating.
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When the lyre went round with the wine, I would have some little thing ready, a lyric, or a skolion on events.
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Anaxis and Hermippos sang a skolion together, their arms round each others' necks.
Note
The word 'skolion' comes from Greek.
