eidolopeia

English

Noun

eidolopeia (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of eidolopoeia.
    • 2004, Todd Penner, “The Preliminary Exercises of Aphthonius the Sophist”, in In Praise of Christian Origins: Stephen and the Hellenists in Lukan Apologetic Historiography‎[1], Bloomsbury Publishing, USA, page 210:
      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
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