Timeline for Meaning of Sentence with unusual construction?
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 23:49 | vote | accept | kushj | ||
| Aug 2, 2015 at 20:54 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @kushj 1) I don't know Greek; but Greek scholars say that a lot of necessary words are left out. 2) Greek drama and dithyramb were both performed poetry, and Greek drama (both comedy and tragedy) is unlike modern drama in having a speaking/singing chorus present throughout. Aristotle seems to suggest that drama arose when the sung monologue was turned into dialogue between the chorus and a single singer/actor, and evolved as more actors were added, who interacted with each other rather than the chorus. | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 18:09 | comment | added | kushj | Thanks for detailed answer and fantastic context. When you refer to Poetics being elliptical, (or any literate work as being elliptical), in what sense does it refer? [Google said elliptical means brief, but is that the sense you were aiming for?] Also, I am still not clear on what it means for tragedy to evolve out of choral lyric -- Tragedy I gather here refers to play rather emotion.. so I can imagine choral lyric tragedy evolving, but evolution of tragedy out of choral lyric is still baffling construct | |
| Aug 2, 2015 at 17:27 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2015 at 17:14 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |