Didascaly, Greek Antiquity
odern ad. Greek ''διδασκαλία'' instruction, teaching; in plural as in quotation. So modern French ''didascalie''.
# In The Catalogues of the ancient Greek Dramas, with their writers, dates, etc., such as were compiled by Aristotle and others.
# The instruction of the chorus in ancient Greek theatre.
# In ancient Greek theatre, the performance of a
tetralogy
A tetralogy (from Greek τετρα- '' tetra-'', "four" and -λογία ''-logia'', "discourse") is a compound work that is made up of four distinct works. The name comes from the Attic theater, in which a tetralogy was a group of three tragedie ...
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[August Witzschel (1850) ''The Athenian Stage'', F. & J. Rivington, London (translated from the German, digitized by Google Books)]
Examples
* 1831 T. L. Peacock, ''Crotchet Castle'' vi. M887 70 "Did not they give to melopoeia, , and the sundry forms of didascalies
rinted -ics the precedence of all other matters, civil and military?"
* 1849 ''Grote Greece'' 11. lxvii. (1862) VI. 26 "The first, second and third
etralogiesare specified in the Didaskalics or Theatrical Records."
See also
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Didascaliae Didascaliae are a compilation of production notices for several stage works of ancient Rome. This incomplete record was probably compiled some time around the 1st century BC, and contains notes on the ''Stichus'' and ''Pseudolus'' of Plautus (in Man ...
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Didascalia Apostolorum
''Didascalia Apostolorum'', or just ''Didascalia'', is a Christian legal treatise which belongs to the genre of the Church Orders. It presents itself as being written by the Twelve Apostles at the time of the Council of Jerusalem; however, schola ...
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