noun
definition
A choral hymn sung in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus.
definition
A poem or oration in the same style.
Examples of dithyrambs in a Sentence
The love-songs of the time are primitive imitations of the NeoGreek lyric dithyrambs and rhapsodies, which through the teaching of the princes .of Walachia were considered as the fountainhead of poetical inspiration.
Yet what our Socialist-Revolutionaries do is, in effect, to sing dithyrambs to " non-partisanship " .
He is further credited by the scholiast on Aristophanes (loc. cit.) with having composed comedies, dithyrambs, epigrams, paeans, hymns, scolia, encomia and elegies; and he is the reputed author of a philosophical treatise on the mystic number three.