Definition of Thespis

1. Noun. Greek poet who is said to have originated Greek tragedy (sixth century BC).

Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thespis

Thermidorians
Thermobia
Thermobia domestica
Thermopsis
Thermopsis macrophylla
Thermopsis villosa
Thermopylae
Thermus aquaticus Rt41A proteinase
Thermus aquaticus carboxypeptidase
Thermus filiformis nuclease
Theseus
Thespesia
Thespesia populnea
Thespian
Thespians
Thespis
Thesprotia
Thesprotian
Thesprotians
Thess.
Thessalia
Thessalian
Thessalians
Thessalonian
Thessalonians
Thessalonica
Thessalonican
Thessalonicans
Thessaloniki
Thessaly

Literary usage of Thespis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tragic Drama of the Greeks by Arthur Elam Haigh (1896)
"Though the plays of thespis were greatly in advance of previous efforts, ... Career of thespis. Concerning the life of thespis there is very little ..."

2. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"536), thespis made the great step of connecting with the choral representation (which had hitherto at most admitted an interchange of voices) a regular ..."

3. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1894)
"The next step towards the creation of drama thespis ... At the Great Dionysia of 534 B. c., thespis, in producing a dithyrambic chorus, came forward as a ..."

4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"According to one account, which is also adopted by Horace, it arose from thespis travelling during the festival of Dionysus through Attica upon a waggon, ..."

5. The Growth and Influence of Classical Greek Poetry: Lectures Delivered in by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"thespis. The next step towards the creation of drama was that which is ... At the Great Dionysia of 534 B. c., thespis, in producing a dithyrambic chorus, ..."

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