Τριταγωνιστής

third-part-actor, third-part-player, tritagonist

Translated by David Whitehead18 May 2011Vetting: high2 revisions

18 words

[sc. A term originating] from Sophocles, who was the first to use three actors and the so-called tritagonist.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τριταγωνιστής· ἀπὸ Σοφοκλέους, ὃς πρῶτος ἐχρήσατο τρισὶν ὑποκριταῖς καὶ τῷ καλουμένῳ τριταγωνιστῇ.

Betacode

*tritagwnisth/s: a)po\ *sofokle/ous, o(\s prw=tos e)xrh/sato trisi\n u(pokritai=s kai\ tw=| kaloume/nw| tritagwnisth=|.

Notes

cf. sigma 815.
For this headword in an applied sense see already tau 1011.

References

A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens [edn.2, revised J. Gould and D.M. Lewis] 132-135

Linked from1 entry

τ1011Τριταγωνιστήςthird-part-actor, third-part-playerAeschines in many [passages] is jeered at by Demosthenes as an actor of tragedies, and he calls him a 'third-part-player', implying a very unesteemed actor, numbering amongst the third-raters.

Neighbouring entries

τ1010Τριστοιχείthree-rowed τ1011Τριταγωνιστήςthird-part-actor, third-part-player τ1012Τριταγωνιστήςthird-part-actor, third-part-player, tritagonist τ1013Τριτάλαντον βάροςthree-talent weight τ1014Τριτάνυστονtriply-stretched

Revision history2 revisions · last 23 May 2011

23 May 2011added bibliography — David Whitehead
23 May 2011set status — Catharine Roth
18 May 2011Translated — David Whitehead