antode

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek [Term?]

Noun

antode (plural antodes)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece, theater) A particular ode sung in response to another.
    • 1975, Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Festival, Comedy and Tragedy: The Greek Origins of Theatre:
      For instance, in the agon of the Knights beginning at 757 we first (761 ff.) find a katakeleusmos and a debate in anapaestic tetrameters catalectic, while the symmetrical section, after the antode, is in iambic tetrameters catalectic.

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