of the day is technopaegnia which refers to "the art of 'shaped' poems in which the visual force is supposed to work spiritually or magically." There are six classic technopaegnia in Greek literature, most of them dating back to the Hellenistic period, when wordplay such as this was all the rage, in the shapes of eggs, wings, and altars. The term comes from the combination of the Greek words techne (meaning art or skill) and paignia (meaning game).
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