A rhapsode or, in modern usage, rhapsodist, refers to a classical Greek professional performer of epic poetry in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Rhapsodes notably performed the epics of Homer but also the wisdom and catalogue poetry of Hesiod and the satires of Archilochus and others.

What is rhapsodic?

1 : extravagantly emotional : rapturous. 2 : resembling or characteristic of a rhapsody.

How do you use rhapsodic in a sentence?

Rhapsodic sentence example

They had the untouchable sound, the look, the rhapsodic rhetoric, and the strangeness. You will find nothing Bohemian, and precious little that's rhapsodic , here. It 's a fierce, disjointed, rhapsodic piece.