[Meaning a] scaffold raised from the ground, on which individuals styled as gods[1] used to stand and speak.
The tragedian's craft is also called [his] 'stage'.[2]
Tragikê skênê: pêgma meteôron, eph' hou en theôn skênêi tines pariontes elegon. legetai de kai hê tragikê technê skênê.
cf. generally
sigma 569. The present headword phrase, in the nominative case, appears, similarly glossed, in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon and other lexica; references at
Photius tau407 Theodoridis. If (as seems reasonable to suppose) it is -- or stems from -- a quotation, a possible source is
Xenophon,
Cyropaedia 6.1.54 (genitive case). (Theodoridis cites Ruhnken's suggested link with
Plato,
Clitophon 407A, but the phrase used there is
mhxanh=s tragikh=s.)
[1] Editors here routinely adopt Porson's emendation (in
Photius) of the transmitted
skhnh=| to
skeuh=|.
[2] See generally LSJ s.v.
skhnh/ II.4.
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