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Rhapsode
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rhap·so·dist  (rps-dst)
n.
1. One who uses extravagantly enthusiastic or impassioned language.
2. also rhap·sode (-sd) One who recited epic and other poetry, especially professionally, in ancient Greece.
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If this is the case, the use of the pseudonym 'Xenophon' may be compared to a standard practice of epic rhapsodes, who used to ascribe all of their lines to Hesiod or Homer (see Graziosi 2002, 33ff.
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The 10 essays consider such aspects as Nestor as an example of Homer on autobiographical memory, the death of Achilles by rhapsodes, and Odysseus' ethnographic digressions.
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63) Ion is flush with hubris, which Socrates punctures by querying what rhapsodes (and by implication poets) actually know.
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