τραγῳδία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, ([[τραγῳδός]]) <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[tragedy]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>464</span>, al., <span class="bibl">And.4.23</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Po.</span>1447a13</span>, etc.; τ. [[ποιεῖν]] compose a [[tragedy]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>400</span>, etc.; κωμῳδίαν καὶ τ. ποιοῦντες <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>395a</span>; τραγῳδιῶν ποιηταί <span class="title">OGI</span>51.31 (Egypt, iii B. C.), cf. <span class="title">SIG</span> 1079.3 (Magn. Mae., ii/i B. C.); ποιητὴς τραγῳδιῶν <span class="title">IG</span>22.1132.38 = <span class="title">SIG</span> 399.34 (Decr. Amphict., iii B. C.), <span class="title">OGI</span>352.7 (Athens, ii B. C.), <span class="title">IG</span>7.3197.28 (Orchom. Boeot.); π. τραγῳδίας ib. 416.27 (Oropus, i B. C.); τραγῳδίας [[διδάσκειν]] (cf. [[διδάσκω]] III) <span class="bibl">D.L.1.59</span>; τραγῳδίᾳ διδάξαντα τὴν Μιλήτου ἅλωσιν Plu.2.814b; ὀκτὼ τ. [[διαγωνίσασθαι]] to [[act]] in [[eight]] tragedies, ib.785c; τῇ τ. [[νικᾶν]] <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>173a</span>; expld. as '[[goatsong]]', because a goat was the prize, <span class="title">Marm.Par.</span>58, Sch.Hermog. in <span class="title">Rh.Mus.</span>63.150; other explanations in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EM</span>764.1</span>: cf. [[τρυγῳδία]]. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> in a simile, μίμησις τοῦ καλλίστου καὶ ἀρίστου βίου, ὃ δή φαμεν . . ὄντως εἶναι τραγῳδίαν τὴν ἀληθεστάτην <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>817b</span>; ἡ τοῦ βίου τ. καὶ κωμῳδία <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Phlb.</span>50b</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> generally, any [[grave]], [[serious]] [[poetry]], opp. [[κωμῳδία]], hence Homer is called a writer of tragedy, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tht.</span>152e</span>; cf. [[τραγικός]], [[τραγῳδοποιός]]. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> an [[exaggerated]] [[speech]], <span class="bibl">Hyp.<span class="title">Lyc.</span>12</span> (prob.l.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Eux.</span>26</span>: hence of descriptions of horrors, <span class="bibl">Plb.6.56.11</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.19.8</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> outward [[grandeur]], [[pomp]], <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Demetr.</span>41</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Arat.</span>15</span>, Ps.-Zaleuc. ap. Stob.4.2.19(pl.), <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Gall.</span> 24</span>; τραγῳδίαν ἐπιθεῖναι τοῖς πράγμασιπροσποιητήν <span class="bibl">D.H.6.70</span>.</span>