cyclical : Idioms & Phrases


Cyclic chorus

  • the chorus which performed the songs and dances of the dithyrambic odes at Athens, dancing round the altar of Bacchus in a circle.
Webster 1913

Cyclic poets

  • certain epic poets who followed Homer, and wrote merely on the Trojan war and its heroes; so called because keeping within the circle of a singe subject. Also, any series or coterie of poets writing on one subject.
Webster 1913