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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek .
Noun
antode (plural antodes)
- (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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