In ancient Greece an epithalamion was composed to honor a newlywed couple. The word derives from the Greek epithalamios which means "of a wedding", epi (of) + thalamos (bridal chamber.) This form continued in popularity through the history of the classical world; the Roman poet Catullus wrote a famous epithalamion, which was translated from or at least inspired by a now-lost work of Sappho. The epithalamion was revived as a poetic form in 1595 by Edmund Spenser in Amoretti And Epithalamion, a co… (More on Epithalamion)