How To Use encomiastic In A Sentence
- In the main, these are either gratuitously encomiastic or post-prandial.
- It contains thirty-two poems, of which twenty-six are in hexameters, the standard metre for post-classical Greek encomiastic poetry.
- To understand why the ‘lives’ began this way, it is important to remember that ‘lives’ were encomiastic narratives, a peculiar literary genre somewhere between the diegesis and the enkomion.
- She makes use of his commentaries, but above all of his seven encomiastic homilies in praise of Paul.
- Since poetry is essentially encomiastic, the great nobles have a definite use for it.
- Let us recapitulate, since the steps Socrates is taking are so important for his critique of poetry (it is noteworthy that at several junctures, Socrates generalizes his results from epic to dithyrambic, encomiastic, iambic, and lyric poetry; 533e5-534a7, 534b7-c7). Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry
