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Headword: Tetralogia
Adler number: tau,395
Translated headword: tetralogy
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"Plato published the dialogs after the fashion of the tragedians' tetralogy. For they competed with four plays, at the Dionysia, Lenaea, Panathenaia, Chytra; of which the satyr play was the fourth. The four plays were called a tetralogy. So all dialogs known for Plato are 56. [...] [Thrasylus] uses double titles in respect of each of the works, one from the name [of the interlocutor in the dialog], the other from the subject-matter. Euthyphro, or On the holy, leads this tetralogy which is the first; it is an exploratory dialog. Second the Apology [Defence] of Socrates, an ethical one. Third Crito, or On action [= what must be done], ethical. Fourth Phaedo, or On the soul, ethical. The second tetralogy..." and so on. In the book of Diogenes Laertius on the Lives of the Philosophers.[1]
"Aristophanes the poet was the inventor of the tetrameter".[2]
Greek Original:
Tetralogia: kata tên tragikên tetralogian exedôke Platôn tous dialogous: ekeinoi gar tetrasi dramasin êgônizonto, Dionusiois, Lênaiois, Panathênaiois, Chutrois: hôn to d# ên Saturikon. ta de d# dramata ekaleito tetralogia. eisi toinun hoi pantes Platôni gnêsioi dialogoi hex kai n#. diplais de chrêtai tais epigraphais kath' hekaston tôn bibliôn, têi men apo tou onomatos, têi de apo tou pragmatos. tautês tês tetralogias, hêtis esti prôtê, hêgeitai Euthuphrôn ê Peri hosiou: ho dialogos esti peirastikos. deutera Apologia Sôkratous, êthikos. tritê Kritôn ê Peri prakteou, êthikos. tetartê Phaidôn ê Peri psuchês, êthikos. deutera tetralogia, kai ephexês, en tôi bibliôi Laertou Diogenous peri biôn philosophôn. hoti tou tetrametrou heuretês Aristophanês ho poiêtês.
Notes:
[1] The two passages come directly from Diogenes Laertius 3.56-58, who cites the C1 AD Alexandrian librarian Thrasyl[l]us for this analysis of Plato's dialogs.
[2] This addendum (a marginal addition in ms. V), presupposing a missing headword "Tetrameter", is repeated exactly from omicron 127, "octameter". See also alpha 3932.
Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; meter and music; philosophy; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 29 May 2000@04:09:35.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; added keyword; cosmetics) on 21 May 2001@07:19:29.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 20 November 2005@09:36:47.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 August 2011@09:29:45.
David Whitehead (my typo) on 9 January 2014@06:05:38.
David Whitehead (codings) on 27 May 2016@11:38:28.
Catharine Roth (another keyword) on 16 July 2022@16:55:35.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 13 June 2023@01:28:04.

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