noun pl. epigones or epigoni
an inferior descendant, follower, or imitator
Origin:
Ger sing. of epigonen < Gr (hoi) Epigonoi, lit., (the) Afterborn, epithet of the sons of the chiefs who fell in the first war against Thebes, pl. of epigonos, orig. adj., born after: see epi- & gono-