Mimiamb

Quick meaning: Mimiamb is a noun meaning (literature, Ancient Greece, rare) A short humorous dramatic scene in verse.

Meaning

(literature, Ancient Greece, rare) A short humorous dramatic scene in verse.

Example Sentences

Matius's mimiambs have not survived complete, but the extant remains may not be unrepresentative of his general style of writing.

Its discovery, after a sleep of some five centuries and a half, will be as great a surprise to meteorologists as a new classical text, such as the ‘Mimiambs’ of Herondas, to Greek scholars.

For example, the school scene in the third mimiamb, the outburst of fierce jealousy on the part of Bitinna in Herondas and that of the Oxyrhynchus μοιχευτρία, the obscene conversation in the sixth mimiamb, and the tales of adultery committed by women which, according to Aristocles, formed the chief subject of the poems recited by the λυσιῳδοί.

Word Forms

• mimiambs

Synonyms for mimiamb

Depending on context, synonyms include mimiambus.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mimiambic, dochmius, mime, miming, mimodrama, mimestry.

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