Didascaly

Didascaly, Greek Antiquity [modern ad. Greek διδασκαλία instruction, teaching; in plural as in quotation. So modern French didascalie.]


 * 1) In The Catalogues of the ancient Greek Dramas, with their writers, dates, etc., such as were compiled by Aristotle and others.
 * 2) The instruction of the chorus in ancient Greek theatre.
 * 3) In ancient Greek theatre, the performance of a tetralogy.

Examples

 * 1831 T. L. Peacock, Crotchet Castle vi. M887 70 "Did not they give to melopoeia,, and the sundry forms of didascalies [printed -ics], the precedence of all other matters, civil and military?"
 * 1849 Grote Greece 11. lxvii. (1862) VI. 26 "The first, second and third [tetralogies] are specified in the Didaskalics or Theatrical Records."