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  2. Flocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Flocabulary is a Brooklyn-based company that creates educational hip hop songs, videos and additional materials for students in grades K-12. [1] Founded in 2004 by Blake Harrison and Alex Rappaport, the company takes a nontraditional approach to teaching vocabulary, United States history, math, science and other subjects by integrating content into recorded raps.

  3. Linus of Thrace - Wikipedia

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    Linus may have been the personification of a dirge or lamentation , as there was a classical Greek song genre known as linos, [15] a form of dirge, which was sometimes seen as a lament for him. This would account for his being the son of Apollo and a Muse, and by which fact, Linus was also considered the inventor of melody and rhythm or of ...

  4. Skolion - Wikipedia

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    A skolion (from Ancient Greek: σκόλιον) (pl. skolia), also scolion (pl. scolia), was a song sung by invited guests at banquets in ancient Greece. Often extolling the virtues of the gods or heroic men, skolia were improvised to suit the occasion and accompanied by a lyre , which was handed about from singer to singer as the time for each ...

  5. Ialemus - Wikipedia

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    Ialémos (Ancient Greek: Ἰάλεμος, meaning "funeral song"), is a song of lamentation in ancient Greece, a minor deity personifying this song in Greek mythology, and an epithet of Linus. He was the son of Apollo and Calliope , and the inventor of the song Ialemus , which was a kind of dirge , or at any rate a song of a very serious and ...

  6. Eumolpus - Wikipedia

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    In Greek Mythology, Eumolpus (/ j u ˈ m ɒ l p ə s /; Ancient Greek: Εὔμολπος Eúmolpos, "good singer" or "sweet singing", derived from εὖ eu "good" and μολπή molpe "song", "singing") was a legendary king of Thrace. He was described as having come to Attica either as a bard, a warrior, or a priest of Demeter and Dionysus.

  7. Hymen (god) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Hymen (Ancient Greek: Ὑμήν, romanized: Humḗn), Hymenaios or Hymenaeus, is a god of marriage ceremonies who inspires feasts and song. Related to the god's name, a hymenaios is a genre of Greek lyric poetry that was sung during the procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast ...

  8. Eiresione - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Eiresione or Iresione / ˌ aɪ r iː s i ˈ oʊ n iː / (Greek: Εἰρεσιώνη, from εἶρος - eiros, "wool" [1] [2]) was the personification of an object very important in many Greek rituals and ceremonies: a branch of olive or laurel, covered with wool, fruits, cakes and olive flasks, dedicated to Apollo and carried about by singing boys during the festivals of ...

  9. Polyhymnia - Wikipedia

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    Polyhymnia (/ p ɒ l i ˈ h ɪ m n i ə /; Greek: Πολυύμνια, lit. 'the one of many hymns'), alternatively Polymnia (Πολύμνια), is, in Greek mythology, the Muse of sacred poetry, sacred hymn, dance and eloquence, as well as agriculture and pantomime. Polyhymnia on an antique fresco from Pompeii