Between football matches, presumably.
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>From: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jan 7, 2013 6:04 AM
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>Subject: Re: Greek
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>It could well be, which would be a catastrophe for me because it now
>means something like a H-bomb falling on you, and I wouldn't be able
>to use it. But catastrophe is a question of plot and I still hope to
>designate rather the poetical form, the final choral ode which ends
>the drama and normally has those properties I mentioned of
>reconciliation with normality. The two short odes at the ends of the
>two Oedipus plays are good examples. There's now a team of Greeks
>working on this in Cheltenham.
>pr
>
>
>On 7 Jan 2013, at 02:30, Alison Croggon wrote:
>
>I suspect the term you're looking for is catastrophe, which I saw
>first in reference to ancient Greek music but also applies to plays:
>"The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy,
>following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot."
>
>xA
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