{"id":43333,"date":"2025-12-18T19:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43333"},"modified":"2025-12-18T19:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:32:33","slug":"word-of-the-day-1080","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/12\/18\/word-of-the-day-1080\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megalography<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. The\u00a0depiction<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0great<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0grand<\/a>\u00a0things, such as heroes and gods. [Art And Popular Culture<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I must say the definitions presented in the DuckDuckGo<\/strong><\/em> summaries for megalography<\/em> had a greater variance than average. Noted in “DINING WITH DIONYSUS<\/em><\/a>,” Benjamin Leonard, Archaeology<\/strong><\/em> (January\/February 2026):<\/p>\n

    Inside a large house in a part of Pompeii called Regio IX, a team from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii unearthed a splendidly decorated dining room that eighteenth-century excavators had stumbled upon but largely ignored. Opening onto a garden, the vaulted room is lined with partially preserved columns painted a rich red that frame frescoed wall panels. Archaeologists were surprised to discover that the frescoes represent a rare example of a megalography\u2014a group of paintings depicting nearly life-size figures, in this case part of the retinue of Dionysus, the god of wine. Researchers have dubbed the residence the House of the Thiasus, after the term for a Dionysian procession, and have dated the frescoes to between 40 and 30 B.C. on the basis of their style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Megalography: The\u00a0depiction\u00a0of\u00a0great\u00a0or\u00a0grand\u00a0things, such as heroes and gods. [Art And Popular Culture] I must say the definitions presented in the DuckDuckGo summaries for megalography had a greater variance than average. Noted in “DINING WITH DIONYSUS,” Benjamin Leonard, Archaeology (January\/February 2026): Inside a large house in a part of Pompeii called Regio \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43335,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43333\/revisions\/43335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}