dithyramb in English
noun
1
a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus.
His Bacco in Toscana, published in 1685, is subtitled ditirambo, the Greek dithyramb being a choral lyric in praise of Dionysus.
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1. Originally the chorus seems to have arisen from the singing of the dithyramb dithyramb , in ancient Greece, hymn to the god Explanation of Chorused
2. The Anacreontic Ode is proof that an ode need not be long and lofty.The Greek poet Anacreon often wrote odes in praise of pleasure and drink, a Dithyramb or Skolion