What is another word for tragedians?

Pronunciation: [tɹad͡ʒˈiːdi͡ənz] (IPA)

Tragedians are performers who specialize in tragic plays and performances. However, there are several synonyms you can use to refer to these performers. One of the common synonyms for tragedians is tragediennes, which is a term used to describe female performers in tragic plays. Another synonym for tragedians is tragic actors, which is a more generic term used to describe performers in both male and female-dominated tragic plays. Other synonyms for tragedians include tragedists, sorrowful performers, and gloomy actors. Using synonyms for tragedians can make your writing more diverse and exciting, as well as help to avoid repetition.

What are the hypernyms for Tragedians?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Tragedians

But a comparison between the fragments of the tragedians and the extant works of Plautus and Terence, proves that, in style at least, Roman comedy was much the most successful; and this superiority is no doubt one main cause of its partial preservation.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The death of Livius Andronicus and the banishment of Naevius, which must have happened about the time that Ennius arrived at Rome, had deprived the Roman stage of the only writers of any name, who had attempted to introduce upon it the works of the Greek tragedians.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
From the knowledge of the Attic tragedians displayed by Ennius in his later career it is likely that he had witnessed representations of their works on a Greek stage, before he began, in middle life, to direct his own genius to dramatic composition.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar

Famous quotes with Tragedians

  • There is perhaps no question that occupies, comparatively, a larger space in the history of Greek geometry than the problem of the Doubling of the Cube. The tradition concerning its origin is given in a letter from Eratosthenes of Cyrene to King Ptolemy Euergetes quoted by Eutocius... "Eratosthenes to King Ptolemy greeting. "There is a story that one of the old tragedians represented Minos as wishing to erect a tomb for Glaucus and as saying, when he heard that it was a hundred feet every way,But he was clearly in error; for when the aides are doubled, the area becomes four times as great, and the solid content eight times as great. Geometers also continued to investigate the question in what manner one might double a given solid while it remained in the same form.
    Thomas Little Heath

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