1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EPODE, in verse, the third part in an ode, which followed the strophe and the antistrophe, and completed the movement; it was called iwt?56s irtplodos by the Greeks. At a certain moment the choirs, which had chanted to right of the altar or stage and then to left of it, combined and sang in unison, or permitted the coryphaeus to sing for them all, standing in the centre. When, with the appearance of Stcsichorus and the evolution of choral lyric, a learned and artificial kind of poetry began to be cultivated in Gree…
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