stasimon

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[stas-uh-mon] / ˈstæs əˌmɒn /

noun

stasima plural

1. (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos.

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Inflected Forms

noun

• stasima
  plural

Etymology

Origin of stasimon

1860–65; < Greek stásimon, neuter of stásimos stopping, stationary, equivalent to stási ( s ) a standing ( see stasis) + -mos adj. suffix

Example Sentences

We now come to the quantitative parts, and the separate parts into which Tragedy is divided, namely, Prologue, Episode, Exode, Choric song; this last being divided into Parode and Stasimon.

From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)

Stasimon, stas′i-mon, n. an ode sung by the whole chorus, after the parode:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Of the Choric part the Parode is the first undivided utterance of the Chorus: the Stasimon is a Choric ode without anapaests or trochaic tetrameters: the Commos is a joint lamentation of Chorus and actors.

From The Poetics of Aristotle by Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry)