different between epigonic vs epigone

English

Etymology

epigone +? -ic

Adjective

epigonic (comparative more epigonic, superlative most epigonic)

1. Being or relating to an epigone or disciple; imitative.

   Synonym: imitative

   • 2004, Paul Bishop, Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House (?ISBN), page 325:

     I want to show that Stifter's novel is not only important for Nietzsche's aesthetics, but it is itself concerned with developing a strategy of epigonic writing. Stifter's own commentary implies that the attempt to distance oneself from epigonality, to overcome it—as was the case with Immerman—collapses the novel, and he arrives at a conscious affirmation of epigonic methods.

English

Etymology

From French épigones, from Latin epigon?, from Ancient Greek ???????? (epígonoi), plural form of ???????? (epígonos, “offspring, descendant”), from ??????????? (epigígnomai, “I come after”), from ??? (epí, “upon”), from ???????? (gígnomai, “I become”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p????n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p??o?n/, /??p???n/

Noun

epigone (plural epigones)

1. A follower or disciple.
2. An undistinguished or inferior imitator of a well known artist or their style.

   Synonym: imitator

Derived terms

• epigonality
• epigonic
• epigonism
• epigonous

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?pi???ne/

Noun

epigone f

1. plural of epigona

Anagrams

• piogene