Hello and welcome to season 5 of Your Greek Word On A Sunday! A weekly bite size podcast for anyone curious on language ,etymology and connections. I am your host Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let’s go!
Hello! Happy autumn everyone and for our friends across the pond, happy fall! I recently realised that although this is our 5th season or series if you like, we’ve only been running for 3 years and that’s because in the beginning, I couldn’t decide if this would be a 12 or 9 month podcast! All this to say to say that in this short period of time and thanks to you, we now have over 20.000 plays from around the world and not counting our newest platform, Spotify. So today we’re celebrating which brings me to…
Θρίαμβος (thriamvos) in Ancient Greece along with διθύραμβος (dithiramvos) and ιάμβος (iamvos), were types of songs dedicated to the gods,θρίαμβος was specifically sung for Dionysus and was performed during the Dionysia festival. The origin of the word Θρίαμβος is not clear, it contains elements from the pre-Greek era and is linked to Arabic words too. Now, the Romans used the word to describe the winning parade that was occasionally held to celebrate the Roman army’s victories and present their loots. They called it the Triumphus and it reached the the English language through old French. ΘΡΙΑΜΒΟΣ/TRIUMPH
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