tragedian|tragedians in English

noun

[tra·ge·di·an || trə'dʒɪːdɪən]

writer of tragedies; actor in tragedies

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1. 13 He kept referring to Wehman as a tragedian.

2. Aeschylus was the earliest of the three greatest Greek writers of tragedians

3. Aeschylus was a Greek tragedian who gave his life to dramatic arts

4. 17 In another bill he was the "world-renowned Shakespearian tragedian, Garrick the Younger, of Drury Lane, London."

5. Aeschylus (Greek: Αἰσχύλος; 525 BC – 456 BC) was a playwright of ancient Greece, the earliest of the three greatest Greek tragedians, the others being Sophocles and Euripides.

6. More sportingly, the 5th century BC tragedian Euripides often played with the old traditions, mocking them, and through the voice of his characters injecting notes of doubt.

7. The Abridged TLG® provides access to authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, the Greek tragedians and orators that have traditionally been used in college level instruction of Greek

8. ‘My lord th** king is dead!” "Oh, is be?" altared the leading tragedian, turning upon the much Befeather-cd messenger a look of eternal hatred.

9. Aeschylus (Aiskhylos) is often recognized as the father of tragedy, and is the first of the three early Greek tragedians whose plays survive extant (the other two being Sophocles and Euripides).

10. Recent Examples on the Web No actor has ever emerged as fully formed, as original and with such unique timing as Streisand does here, gracefully blending romantic lead with outrageous clown, Broadway Belter and heartbreaking tragedian

11. It may have had a deliberate association with notions of the dignity of antiquity, including the use by classical tragedians of the cothurnus or " Buskin "--the high-heeled boot of the tragic actor, which gave literal superiority of step and posture.

12. “The Bacchae, as we know it, was first produced in Athens under the direction of Euripides’ son, also called Euripides, in perhaps 405 BC, a year or two after his father’s death, but when the tragedian first presented the play he was in Macedonia at the court of Archelaus (…)

13. ‘The first six odes of Book 3 are sometimes referred to as the Roman Odes, written in stately Alcaics in elevated style on patriotic themes.’ ‘Later, he was taught to turn English verse into Alcaics and sapphics in Horatian style, as well as imitating Virgil, Ovid and the Greek tragedians.’

14. There is a striking moment, unparalleled in its grotesquery and courage, in Aristophanes’s comedy, The Frogs: two groups of dead people engage in a debate regarding the art of the two great tragedians, Aeschylus and Euripides.In order to arbitrate the dispute between the two clans, the judges are obliged to weigh in on the balance of stanzas, imagery, and metaphors between the two rivals.