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Didascaly, Greek Antiquity

1. In The Catalogues of the ancient Greek Dramas, with their writers, dates, etc., such as were compiled by Aristotle and others.
2. The instruction of the chorus in ancient Greek theatre.
3. In ancient Greek theatre, the performance of a tetralogy.

Examples

• 1831 T. L. Peacock, Crotchet Castle vi. M887 70 "Did not they give to melopoeia, choregraphy, and the sundry forms of didascalies , the precedence of all other matters, civil and military?"
• 1849 Grote Greece 11. lxvii. (1862) VI. 26 "The first, second and third are specified in the Didaskalics or Theatrical Records."

See also

• Didascaliae
• Didascalia Apostolorum

References

1. Oxford English Dictionary (2003)
2. James Murray, Editor (1897) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Clarendon Press Oxford
3. Encyclopædia Britannica (2010)
4. August Witzschel (1850) The Athenian Stage, F. & J. Rivington, London (translated from the German, digitized by Google Books)

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