Sentence example with the word 'antistrophe'

antistrophe

Definition n. the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama

Last update: October 31, 2015


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Stesichorus completed the form of the choral ode by adding the epode to the strophe and antistrophe; and "you do not even know Stesichorus's three" passed into a proverbial expression for unpardonable ignorance (unless the words simply mean, "you do not even know three lines, or poems, of Stesichorus").   [Please select]

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The more I chanted antistrophe to her strophe of lamentation the more was I welcome in her drawing-room.   [Please select]

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