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A new assessment of the efforts by epigones is long due. Literary critics, historians and specialists in philosophy of arts often use the term 'epigone' with the negative connotation to highlight the fact that some forms of artistic production come late in the series of works and do not have much to offer that appears fresh or inventive. At the same time it is obvious that numerous critics have been...