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epithalamium

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ep·i·tha·la·mi·um  (p-th-lm-m) or ep·i·tha·la·mi·on (-n)
n. pl. ep·i·tha·la·mi·ums or ep·i·tha·la·mi·a (-m-)
A lyric ode in honor of a bride and bridegroom.
[Latin, from Greek epithalamion, from neuter of epithalamios, of a wedding : epi-, epi- + thalamos, bridal chamber.]
epithalamium, epithalamy
a song or poem composed and performed in honor of a bride or groom.
See also: Marriage
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Noun1.epithalamium - an ode honoring a bride and bridegroom
ode - a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
prothalamion, prothalamium - a song in celebration of a marriage


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The reader might wish to read Nevitt's essay that further discusses the epithalamium, or wedding poem (see "Rembrandt's Wedding Feast of Samson" in A.
Art and the Culture of Love in Seventeenth-Century Holland by Golahny, Amy / Renaissance Quarterly
The third chapter "marks a change in focus which is continued in chapter four, from a classical to a Christian horizon, and also pairs an early epithalamium and a wedding sermon together" (7).
Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship. (Reviews) by Cohee, Gail E. / Renaissance Quarterly
48) Gaza is of great importance for the history of marriage oratory since he was the first to translate into Latin the precepts for the epithalamium written by the ancient rhetorician pseudo-Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
Marriage, sexual pleasure, and learned brides in the wedding orations ... by D'Elia, Anthony F. / Renaissance Quarterly
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