Talk:Greek chorus
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I suggest that the title of the article be "greek tragic chorus", because the range of the topic of greek chorus is much larger, involves all greek poetry in different ways and is all the matter of lyric poetry from Hesiode to Callimaque. Besides, comedy involves as much as tragedy a chorus, and Aristophane the best defender of its privileges. The dyonisiac origin of the chorus is indeed a common place, but it do not resist this question "where and when Artemis do not gather her chorus?" that is 4 time quoted in greek litterature at various epochs.
[edit] Do all 15 chorus members speak simultaneously?
Forgive my ignorance, but I'd appreciate some guidance from the scholarly among you. It is unclear to me whether all 15 members of a chorus speak simultaneously? I'm reading a Ted Hughes translation of Oresteia, and the stage directions simply indicate "chorus." This has me imagining 15 old men uttering their lines at the same moment. Or is it understood that the various chorus members alternate their lines?
I would appreciate any light shed on the subject.
68.252.109.210 20:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC)W.P. Norton
