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		Latin word meaning "the praise of a person or thing"

For the Led Zeppelin tribute album released in 1995, see Encomium (album).

	
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Encomium is a Latin word deriving from the Ancient Greek enkomion (ἐγκώμιον), meaning "the praise of a person or thing."[1] Another Latin equivalent is laudatio, a speech in praise of someone or something. Encomium also refers to several distinct aspects of rhetoric:


	A general category of oratory
	A method within rhetorical pedagogy
	A figure of speech praising a person or thing, but occurring on a smaller scale than an entire speech
	The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series
	A literary genre that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue[citation needed]


		The basilikos logos (imperial encomium), a formal genre in the Byzantine empire




Examples[edit]

	Gorgias' famous Encomium of Helen offers several justifications for excusing Helen of Troy's adultery
	In Erasmus' In Praise of Folly, Folly composes an encomium to herself
	De Pippini regis Victoria Avarica is a medieval encomium of the victory of Pepin of Italy over the Avars
	Encomium Emmae Reginae is a medieval encomium of Queen Emma of Normandy
	Laudes Mediolanensis civitatis or Versum de Mediolano civitate is a medieval encomium of Milan
	Versus de Verona is a medieval encomium of Verona
	Polychronion is chanted in the liturgy of Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite
	Paul the Apostle uses a kind of encomium in his praise of love, in 1 Corinthians 13; the prologue is verses 1–3, acts are v. 4–7, comparison is v. 8–12, and epilogue is 13:13–14:1.[2]


References[edit]

	^ ἐγκώμιον. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project

	^ David E. Garland, Baker Exegetical Commentary, 1 Corinthians, 606,  based on the work of Sigountos.




External links[edit]

	 The dictionary definition of encomium at Wiktionary









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