Like the title says, as I gathered features for today’s newsletter, I found that what united them was ‘catastrophe',’ a word with an original meaning much broader than how we use it today.
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Etymologies of Tragedy
In Greek tragedy, the chorus sings as they move between two points on stage—using a verse known as a strophe and then, as they …
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