An epithalamium (/ˌɛpɪθəˈleɪmiəm/; Latin form of Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον epithalamion from ἐπί epi "upon," and θάλαμος thalamos nuptial chamber) is a poem written...

popular in this era. Epithalamion is a poem celebrating a marriage. An epithalamium is a song or poem written specifically for a bride on her way to the...

3rd-century BC Greek poet Theocritus. The poem includes a re-creation of the epithalamium sung by a choir of maidens at the marriage of Helen and Menelaus of Sparta...

the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the Epithalamium, which is sung at the nuptial threshold. He is one of the winged love...

Cambridge Period Elizabethan era Genres Epic poem eclogue sonnet elegy hymn epithalamium beast fable poetical autobiography political treatise history translation...

incorporated in many homoerotic works. In FRAGMENT: Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Cordé, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)...

uses formal language with Paris. Other forms in the play include an epithalamium by Juliet, a rhapsody in Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and an elegy by...

Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods: Hera and Leto Theocritus, Idylls 18: An Epithalamium for Helen. See West 1983, pp. 1–3; Meisner, p. 1; Athanassakis and Wolkow...

in the English language, using the word in its strict form, were the Epithalamium and Prothalamium of Edmund Spenser. In the 17th century, the original...

constitute a great loss. Ovid also mentions some occasional poetry (Epithalamium, dirge, even a rendering in Getic) which does not survive. Also lost...

Saturnalia, although there are no historical records of that. In the poem Epithalamium by Catullus, he tells of the gods decorating the home of Peleus with...

poem, were one to remove lines 1–3 and 58–9, would read much like an epithalamium, or a poem written specifically for a bride on the way to her marital...

ejaculations of love, when, lacking a signifier to name the object of its epithalamium, it employs the crudest trickery of the imaginary. "I'll eat you up....

distinguished English and American critics. Her published works were: Epithalamium (N. Y. and London, 1889); The Choir Visible (Chicago, 1897); and Sonnets...

Augusto quartum consuli 24–33; De consulatu Stilichonis II 247–255; Epithalamium dictum Honorio Augusto et Mariae 88–90; Bellum Geticum 416–418. Chronica...

proper" leader of the dancing Spartan women. Theocritus conjures the song epithalamium Spartan women sung at Platanistas commemorating the marriage of Helen...

1964 dissertation was titled "Literary Backgrounds and Motifs of the Epithalamium in English to 1650". Tufte was a member of the English faculty of the...

commemorated on coinage, and largesse was distributed to the people. An epithalamium for the occasion was composed by the sophist Julius Pollux. Upon her...

literary example that has been noted is the poem by Claudian (d. 404), the Epithalamium for the wedding of Honorius and Maria, in which Venus rides Triton on...

the Gothic booty. Priscus Attalus gave the wedding speech, a classical epithalamium. Under Athaulf's rule, the Visigoths couldn't be said to be masters of...

which the psalm should be sung. The psalm has been interpreted as an epithalamium, or wedding song, written to a king on the day of his marriage to a foreign...

song is a song sung as wedding music Wedding music in general A musical epithalamium Hindi wedding songs, wedding songs in India (The) Wedding Song may refer...

the Gildonic revolt") In Eutropium ("Against Eutropius") Fescennina / Epithalamium de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti Panegyricus de Tertio Consulatu Honorii Augusti...

“The Sun Rising” by John Donne. Deep image Didactic Dramatic monologue Epithalamium (aka epithalamion): a nuptial poem in honour of the bride and bridegroom...

Triumphal Symphony of 1853. Though this is dismissed by Rosa Newmarch as "an epithalamium for a Habsburg Prince", Smetana's biographer Brian Large identifies much...

bones' to the 1871 edition. The epilogue concludes "In Memoriam" with an epithalamium, a nuptial poem for the poet's sister, Cecilia Tennyson, on her wedding...

composed probably during a visit to Kraków, for Johannes Dantiscus's epithalamium for Barbara Zapolya's 1512 wedding to King Zygmunt I the Old. Some time...

uses formal language with Paris. Other forms in the play include an epithalamium by Juliet, a rhapsody in Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and an elegy by...

(vol. 1 part I – Antinous, part II – Inscriptions; vol. 2 part III – Epithalamium), Lisbon: Olisipo, 1921 (vol. 1, 20 pp.; vol. 2, 16 pp., 24 cm). Portugal:...

matter, and not usually the subject of literature. An exception was the epithalamium, a genre of poetry that celebrated a wedding. A wedding hymn by Catullus...