Sophocles’ Antigone 3
Autodidact: Sophocles’ Antigone III Thomas Fleming The Structure of Tragedy First, a few words about the nature and structure of tragedy. The origins of Greek tragedy lie in a long-standing tradition of choral lyric poetry. In primitive tragedy, we can imagine a chorus of 12 male citizens chanting a processional introduction and singing formal odes on the exploits and, usually, death of a hero. Later the number was increased to 15. At some point a hypokrites or interpreter was added. Presumably this actor, as we call him, could both interpret the choral lyrics by introducing them and responding to them and...
