Satyric

As neither the popular taste nor the ancient religious associations connected with the festivals of Dionysus would have permitted the chorus of Satyrs to be entirely banished from the tragic representations, Pratinas avoided this by the invention of what is called the Satyric drama; that is, a species of play in which the ordinary subjects of tragedy were treated in a lively and farcical manner, and in which the chorus consisted of a band of Satyrs in appropriate dresses and masks.

A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853

Why, yes indeed, I hope so, or else I should be uglier than all the Silenuses in the Satyric drama. 148

Symposium 2007

But the plot of this Satyric or Silenic drama has been detected, and you must not allow him, Agathon, to set us at variance.

The Symposium 2006

He is the Satyric genius we spoke of anon: he cracks his jokes still, for satire must live; but he is combed, washed, neatly clothed, and perfectly presentable.

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

[501] A line from a lost Satyric Play of Æschylus, called "Prometheus Purphoros."

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

That the two forms are not wholly divorced is clear from the history of ancient drama itself: Each dramatist competed with four plays, three tragedies and a Satyric drama.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

Rabelaisian ditty, a gross amazing jest, a chuckle of deep Satyric humour; -- and the monstrous "thickness" of Life, its friendly aplomb and nonchalance, its grotesque irreverence, its shy shrewd common-sense, its tough fibres, and portentous indifference to "distinction"; tumbles us over in the mud -- for all our "aloofness" -- and roars over us, like a romping bull-calf!

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

Accordingly the costume and mask of Hercules are compounded, of his conventional appearance in Tragedy, in which he is conceived as the perfection of physical strength toiling and suffering for mankind, and his conventional appearance in Satyric plays as the gigantic feeder, etc.

Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886

'Satyric Drama,' which only allowed two (speaking) personages on the

Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886

The iambic measure then replaced the trochaic tetrameter, which was originally employed when the poetry was of the Satyric order, and had greater affinities with dancing.

Poetics. English 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle 1880