vocab 11
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- antistrophe
- one type of stanza division of an ode in which the chorus moved from left to right
- calamity
- great misfortune resulting in immense loss and sorrow; disaster
- Comedy
- had ordinary people and happy endings
- Comprehensive
- including all of the relative details
- deference
- courteous respect
- defiled
- make dirty
- Dithyramb
- hymn sung in honor of the god
- Exodos
- at the end of the play, the chorus exits singing a processional song which usually offers words of wisdom related to the actions and outcome of the play
- Insolence
- bold disrespect
- Lithe
- flexible and graceful
- malicious
- mean spirited, spiteful people
- Piety
- loyal, dutiful devotion
- Proskenion
- facade of skene building which served as backdrop
- Recoils
- draws back, as in fear and disgust
- Repulse
- driving back; repelling
- sated
- filled; satisfied
- Satyr plays
- comic and lewd treatments of mythic and religious questions
- Senile
- mentally impaired; mental deterioration that may accompany old age
- Sententiously
- in a trite and moralizing way
- Skene
- building used as dressing room
- somberly
- earnestly and solemnly; in a gloomy manner
- Strophe
- one type of stanza division of an ode in which the chorus moved from right to left
- swaggered
- bold arrogant strut
- Thymele
- altar to Dionysus in center of orchestra
- Tragedy
- serious treatments of religous and mythic questions which had heroic characters and unhappy endings
- transcends
- goes beyond the limits of
- transgress
- disobey
- Vigil
- purposeful watching and staying awake
- Waver
- show doubt or uncertainty about what to do
- Wrath
- intense anger