Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ancient Greek drinking- or banquet-song, sung to the lyre by the guests in turn.

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Examples

  • Our first piece is a skolion for the Athenian lovers Aristogeiton and Harmodius, who assassinated the tyrant Hipparchus in 514 BCE, using swords they had concealed in ceremonial myrtle wreaths.

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – March – 15 2008

  • Our first piece is a skolion for the Athenian lovers Aristogeiton and Harmodius, who assassinated the tyrant Hipparchus in 514 BCE, using swords they had concealed in ceremonial myrtle wreaths.

    Tyrannicide Day 2008 2008

  • He banged the table in tune with the skolion, singing loudly, "I'm married, married, married to Eurydike!"

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • Young Bacchylides, whom I had left behind to get on with his schooling, had made a skolion on the music master, sung it too loudly, and had a beating.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

  • When the lyre went round with the wine, I would have some little thing ready, a lyric, or a skolion on events.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

  • It was a komos of revelers, waving torches, and singing a skolion to which they dance-stepped along.

    The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

  • Anaxis and Hermippos sang a skolion together, their arms round each others 'necks.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

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  • A yodel I figured had solely been

    A feature of regions tyrolean,

    But wine and a lyre

    I bet could inspire

    The Greeks to claim it’s a skolion.

    May 7, 2018