Crossword clues for epigone
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also epigon, "undistinguished scion of mighty ancestors," (sometimes in Latin plural form epigoni), 1865, from Greek epigonoi, in classical use with reference to the sons of the Seven who warred against Thebes; plural of epigonos "offspring, successor, posterity," noun use of adjective meaning "born afterward," from epi "close upon" (in time), see epi-, + -gonos "birth, offspring," from root of gignesthai "to be born" related to genos "race, birth, descent" (see genus).
Wiktionary
n. A follower or disciple.
WordNet
n. an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician [syn: epigon]
Usage examples of "epigone".
It did not matter much that esthetics became independent, for the only art form in the West which still had a future, Western Music, paid no attention to theories and continued on its grand creative course to its end in Wagner and his epigones.
In 1924, the epigones disinterred the letter from the archives and flung it at the party, three-quarters of which at that time consisted of new members.
Even if the Preservers had withdrawn their blessing from the world after the affront of the Age of Insurrection, as the divaricationists believed, it was still possible that machines, their epigones, might recognize the justice of answering a particular wish, and intercede.