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Definition of Peripeteia
1. Noun. A sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work). "A peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling"
Definition of Peripeteia
1. Noun. a reversal of fortune; a sudden change in circumstances ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peripeteia
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peripeteia
Literary usage of Peripeteia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Of the Origin and Progress of Language by James Burnett Monboddo (1789)
"... dialogue of- Xenophon, the Hieron,—more poetical than any of them, having a
kind of peripeteia in it. ..."
2. A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray (1897)
"(3) Dens with ' peripeteia': Iphigenia in Tauris (413), Helena (412), Orestes (408).
Iphigenia in Anlis and Baccha: doubtful ; probably ' peripeteia ' in ..."
3. A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray (1897)
"(2) Deus with mere prophecy or the like : Andromache (424), Supf lifts (421),
Ion, Electra (414?). (3) Deus with 'peripeteia': ..."
4. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"The appearance of Hercules only effects an outward peripeteia, or thnt sort of
revolution which bears upon the occurrences in the |.iece ; the intrinsic ..."
5. Selected Prose Works of G.E. Lessing by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1890)
"We have seen that one does not exclude the other, and although in ' Iphigenia'
a happy recognition follows upon the unhappy peripeteia and the play ..."
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