Meanings
nouneidolopeia (uncountable)
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of eidolopoeia.
Composing speech and placing it in the mouth of a known living person, thereby inventing that person's ethos, is referred to as ethopoeia; the similar in the mouth of a dead person is eidolopeia; and when both the ethos and actual person are invented, it is known as prosopoiia
2004, Todd Penner, “The Preliminary Exercises of Aphthonius the Sophist”, in In Praise of Christian Origins: Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic Historiography, Bloomsbury Publishing, USA, page 210
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