~ TRAGA     id+ | sp for SWALLOW  DEGLUTATION |
~ TRAGADERO
~ TRAGEDY   id+ | CATASTROPHE  DISASTER  CALAMITY |
^u          id+ | TRAGEDY IS A THE REMORSELESS
                  WORKING OF THINGS |
            id+ | SINGING PITIABLE SONGS |
            id+ | what induces a
                  SENSE OF PITY or EMPATHY or FEAR |
~ TRAGI     plural of TRAGUS
~ TRAGO     id+ | sp for SWALLOW IN ONE GULP |
~ TRAGUS    id+ | PROMINENCE ANTERIOR TO THE EAR OPENING
                  OFTEN HAIRY IN OLDER MEN |
            id+ | perhaps GOAT LIKE EAR |
  med> CARTILAGE ANTERIOR TO THE MEATUS
        OR EXTERNAL OPENING OF THE EAR CANAL
  gr  TRAGODIA   see> CATASTROPHE
      TRAGODOS   = SONG OF A GOAT
  lat TRAGEDIA     "A GOAT SINGER" or
                    AN UNHAPPY POINT
  cont> under ODE
  hx>  TRAGIC ACTORS OFTEN WORE A GOAT SKIN
  lit+ ARISTOTLE [#] in his " POETICS " DEFINED TRAGEDY
       ON THEN 100 YEAR OLD PLAYS PRODUCED BY
  AESCHYLUS [#] EURIPIDES [#] and other WRITERS
  ARISTOTLE [#] POINTS OUT
  TWO KEY ELEMENTS FOUND IN A TRAGEDY
  FIRST
  A MISFORTUNE OF A SERIOUS MAGNITUDE
  OFTEN DUE TO AN ERROR IN JUDGMENT
  RATHER THAN DUE TO VICE OR DEPRAVITY and
  SECOND
  A CAPACITY TO EVOKE FEELINGS OF PITY
  FEAR  FRAILTY and put another way
  note OLD DRAMAS  or TRAGEDY   TRAGEDIES
       HAD SEVERAL PARTS
  PROSTASIS   = PRO or BEFORE as if a
                PROPOSITION or
  PROLOGUE      DESCRIBED THE GENERAL SITUATION
                PARODOS
                THE CHORUS ENTERED AND SANG
                or ODAS ODE   sug> ODEON
  PARODY        in ukr
    RODY        BE BORN
    ROD         BIRTH
  EPISTASIS     from EPI or ABOVE or DECOR
  EPISODE       ALTERATION or ACT
     STROPHE    CHORAL PASSAGES
                as in CHORAL PASSAGE or " TURN "
     STASIMON   VERSE GOVERNED BY
                THE MUSIC THAT ACCOMPANIED THEM
  CATASTASIS    CATA or DOWN
  CATASTROPHE   CULMINATION or
                CATHARSIS    sug> RESOLUTION
  art> lit+  perhaps the most significant creation
             by Carl ORFF [#] is not the trilogy that
  includes CARMINA BURANA see> FORTUNE
  instead it may be his honest attempt to recreate the
  SINGING of CLASSIC GREEK TRAGEDIES
  ORFF [#] produced in German translation the
  TRAGEDIES BY SOPHOCLES [#]
  ANTIGONAE (1949)
  OEDIPUS DER TYRANN (1959) and
  PROMETHEUS by AESCHYLUS [#]
  however these works are rarely performed because
  they require exotic musical instrumentation
  ply> | CATHARSIS MAY BE THE END OF A CATASTROPHE |
  sc> Herbert SPENCER [#] WAS CRITICIZED FOR
      HIS THEORIES DEVELOPED MOSTLY BY DEDUCTION
  in this flimsy manner SPENCER CONCEIVED
  THE DOCTRINE OF SOCIAL DARWINISM
  lit+  "SPENCER'S IDEA OF A TRAGEDY
         IS A DEDUCTION KILLED BY A FACT "
  cont> sug> FORTUNE

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