epigonus

[ih-pig-uh-nuh s]

noun, plural e·pig·o·ni [ih-pig-uh-nahy] /ɪˈpɪg əˌnaɪ/.

epigone.

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Historical Examples of epigoni

The victors of Constantinople are but the epigoni of a mighty contest.
The Arian Controversy
H. M. Gwatkin
After Aristotle we have, as regards logic, what the verdict of after times has rightly characterized as an age of Epigoni.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 8
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He is acquainted with the poems of the epic cycle, the Cypria, the Epigoni, &c.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4
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The statues of the Epigoni stood on a semicircular basis on the south side of the way.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10
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Make of yourselves a mirror where the future may see itself, and forget the superstition that you are Epigoni.
Thoughts Out of Season (Part II)
Friedrich Nietzsche

British Dictionary definitions for epigoni

Epigoni

pl n singular -onus (-ənəs)

Greek myth the descendants of the Seven against Thebes, who undertook a second expedition against the city and eventually captured and destroyed it

Word Origin for Epigoni

C20: from Greek epigonoi those born after

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