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Tetralogy  n.  (Gr. Drama) A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies and one satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies), represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiac festival. Note: A group or series of three tragedies, exhibited together without a fourth piese, was called a trilogy.






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"Tetralogy" Quotes from Famous Books



... [501] A tetralogy composed of three tragedies, the 'Agamemnon,' the 'Chophorae,' the 'Eumenides,' together with a satirical drama, ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al

... Louis of Bavaria by "Der fliegende Hollaender" resulted in a summons to Wagner to settle at Munich, and with the glories of the Royal Opera-House in that city his name has since been principally connected. The culminating art-splendor of his life, however, was the production of his stupendous tetralogy, the "Ring der Nibelungen," at the great opera-house at Baireuth, in the summer of ...
— The Great German Composers • George T. Ferris



Words linked to "Tetralogy" :   tetralogy of Fallot, series, Fallot's tetralogy, serial



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