Across the pond, Englishmen like John Mayall, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton were «60s epigones of African American music who could somehow mechanically reproduce the sound of the American south, but who apparently had no real idea of what they are playing in that their experience (even as working class whites in an English class system) was entirely alien to the modes and mores of the American south. (firstthings.com)
Now he is distressed that his academic epigones have extended deconstructionist theory to his socialist dream, and are not amenable to being converted to his messianic religion of America as the Redeemer Nation of limitless possibilities. (firstthings.com)
But Newton's epigones soon saw no need for divine interventions. (faith.org.uk)