See also:

• EPITHALAMIUM (Gr. hirl, at or upon, and BhXayos, a nuptial chamber)

EPITHALAMIUM (Gr. hirl, at or upon, and BhXayos, a nuptial chamber)  , originally among the Greeks a See also:

• SONG

song in praise of See also:

• BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

bride and bridegroom, which was sung by a number of boys and girls at the See also:

• DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door of the nuptial chamber . According to the scholiast on See also:

• THEOCRITUS

Theocritus, one See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form, the KaraioL,LLr7Tuc6v, was employed at See also:

• NIGHT

night, and another, the SLeyeprnKbv, to arouse the bride and bridegroom on the following See also:

• MORNING

morning . In either See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case, as was natural, the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main See also:

• BURDEN, or BURTHEN

burden of the song consisted of invocations of blessing and predictions of happiness, interrupted from See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time to time by the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus of See also:

• HYMEN, or HYMENAEUS

Hymen hymenaee . Among the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans a similar See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom was in See also:

• VOGUE, EUGENE MELCHIOR, COMTE DE (1848- )

vogue, but the song was sung by girls only, after the See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage guests had gone, and it contained much more of what See also:

• MODERN

modern morality would condemn as obscene . In the hands of the poets the See also:

• EPITHALAMIUM (Gr. hirl, at or upon, and BhXayos, a nuptial chamber)

epithalamium was See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed into a See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• LITERARY

literary form, and received considerable' cultivation., See also:

• SAPPHO (7th–6th centuries B.C.)

Sappho, See also:

• ANACREON

Anacreon, See also:

• STESICHORUS (c. 640–555 B.C.)

Stesichorus and See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar are all regarded as masters of the See also:

• SPECIES

species, but the finest example preserved in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek literature is the 18th Idyll of Theocritus, which celebrates the marriage of See also:

• MENELAUS

Menelaus and See also:

• HELEN

Helen . In Latin, the epithalamium, imitated from Fescennine Greek See also:

• MODELS

models, was a See also:

• BASE

base' form of literature, when See also:

• CATULLUS, GAIUS VALERIUS (?84-J4 B.C.)

Catullus redeemed it and gave it dignity by modelling his Marriage of See also:

• THETIS

Thetis and See also:

• PELEUS

Peleus on a lost See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode of Sappho . In later times See also:

• STATIUS, PUBLIUS PAPINIUS (c. A.D. 45-96)

Statius, See also:

• AUSONIUS, DECIMUS MAGNUS (c. 310-395)

Ausonius, Sidonius See also:

• APOLLINARIS
• APOLLINARIS, SULPICIUS

Apollinaris; and Claudian are the authors of the best-known epithalamia in classical Latin; and they have been imitated by See also:

• BUCHANAN
• BUCHANAN, CLAUDIUS
• BUCHANAN, GEORGE (1506–1582)
• BUCHANAN, JAMES (1791-1868)
• BUCHANAN, ROBERT WILLIAMS (1841-1901)

Buchanan, ScaIiger, 'See also:

• SANNAZARO, JACOPO (1458-1530)

Sannazaro, and a whole See also:

• HOST

host of modern Latin poets, with whom, indeed, the form was at one time in See also:

• GREAT

great favour . The names of See also:

• RONSARD, PIERRE DE (1524-1585)

Ronsard, See also:

• MALHERBE, FRANCOIS DE (1555-1628)

Malherbe and See also:

• SCARRON, PAUL (1610-166o)

Scarron are especially associated with the species in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French literature, and See also:

• MARINI (or MARINO), GIAMBATTISTA (1569-1625)

Marini and See also:

• METASTASIO (1698-1782)

Metastasio in See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian . Perhaps no poem of this class has been more universally admired than the Epithalamium of See also:

• SPENSER, EDMUND (c. 1552-1599)
• SPENSER, JOHN (1559-1614)

Spenser (1595), though he has found no unworthy rivals in See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben See also:

• JONSON

Jonson, See also:

• DONNE, JOHN (1573–1631)

Donne and See also:

• QUARLES

Quarles . At the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of In Memoriam See also:

• TENNYSON, ALFRED TENNYSON

Tennyson has appended a poem, on the nuptials of his See also:

• SISTER

sister, which is strictly an epithalamium .