Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient Greek drinking- or banquet-song, sung to the lyre by the guests in turn.
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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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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.
Tyrannicide Day 2008 2008
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He banged the table in tune with the skolion, singing loudly, "I'm married, married, married to Eurydike!"
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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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.
The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978
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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.
The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978
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It was a komos of revelers, waving torches, and singing a skolion to which they dance-stepped along.
The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978
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Anaxis and Hermippos sang a skolion together, their arms round each others 'necks.
The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966
qms commented on the word skolion
A yodel I figured had solely been
A feature of regions tyrolean,
But wine and a lyre
I bet could inspire
The Greeks to claim it’s a skolion.
May 7, 2018