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Definition of Greek chorus
1. Noun. A company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play.
Category relationships: Singing, Vocalizing
Generic synonyms: Company, Troupe
Derivative terms: Choric, Chorus, Chorus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greek Chorus
Literary usage of Greek chorus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greek Genius, and Other Essays by John Jay Chapman (1915)
"THE Greek chorus —HORROR AND IRONY THE Bacchantes, like every other Greek play,
is the result, first, of the legend; second, of the theatre. ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"SEMITIC INFLUENCE AND THE Greek chorus Instead of attempting to prove here ...
It is evident that the Greek chorus, the germ from which Greek tragedy was ..."
3. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"the part of a Greek chorus, and into whose mouth are put the author's own
sentiments, in a violent diatribe against modern Russia, declares that ' if a ..."
4. The History of the Chorus in the German Drama by Elsie Winifred Helmrich (1912)
"8 He had translated some of the choral odes in the'' Iphigenia in Aulis " of
Euripides and had become interested in the Greek chorus. ..."
5. The Classical Museum by Leonhard Schmitz (1845)
"JGS WAS DANCING AN ELEMENT OF THE Greek chorus ? THIS question has the air of a
paradox. Dancing is so universally affirmed to have been one of the elements ..."
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