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.) The epithalamion was revived as a poetic form in 1595 by Edmund Spenser in Amoretti And Epithalamion, a composition of 89 sonnets, a lyric conclusion, and a 433 line epithalamion.