Encomium

<h2 id="examples">Examples</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Gorgias/KsgIpx1u">Gorgias</a>' famous <i><a href="/facts/Encomium_of_Helen/KsgIpx1u">Encomium of Helen</a></i> offers several justifications for excusing <a href="/facts/Helen_of_Troy/3zgevnGS">Helen of Troy</a>'s adultery</li>
<li>In <a href="/facts/Erasmus/BLSrWcKI">Erasmus</a>' <i><a href="/facts/In_Praise_of_Folly/A19KvHTk">In Praise of Folly</a></i>, Folly composes an encomium to herself</li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/De_Pippini_regis_Victoria_Avarica/0PjF7NwH">De Pippini regis Victoria Avarica</a></i> is a medieval encomium of the victory of <a href="/facts/Pepin_of_Italy/dJsYBl0y">Pepin of Italy</a> over the <a href="/facts/Avars_(Carpathians)/ahfVNL44">Avars</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/Encomium_Emmae_Reginae/yHgEW61s">Encomium Emmae Reginae</a></i> is a medieval encomium of Queen <a href="/facts/Emma_of_Normandy/66MVQhwN">Emma of Normandy</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/Laudes_Mediolanensis_civitatis/GYLuQGCT">Laudes Mediolanensis civitatis</a></i> or <i>Versum de Mediolano civitate</i> is a medieval encomium of <a href="/facts/Milan/0xrtbPdt">Milan</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/Versus_de_Verona/EjyPLyC7">Versus de Verona</a></i> is a medieval encomium of <a href="/facts/Verona/tquPI1yc">Verona</a></li>
<li><i><a href="/facts/Polychronion/cGWwCBxz">Polychronion</a></i> is chanted in the liturgy of Churches which follow the <a href="/facts/Byzantine_Rite/A0TWNNfl">Byzantine Rite</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Paul_the_Apostle/mIAFgUw7">Paul the Apostle</a> uses a kind of encomium in his praise of love, in <a href="/facts/First_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians/7Wj6IKLt">1 Corinthians</a> 13; the prologue is verses 1–3, acts are v. 4–7, comparison is v. 8–12, and epilogue is 13:13–14:1.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li> The dictionary definition of encomium at Wiktionary</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>ἐγκώμιον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=e)gkw/mios" target="_blank">https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=e)gkw/mios</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Encomion <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>David E. Garland, Baker Exegetical Commentary, 1 Corinthians, 606,  based on the work of Sigountos. <a href="/wiki/David_E._Garland" target="_blank">/wiki/David_E._Garland</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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