Tetralogy
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Tetralogy. In the ancient Greek
Dionysia each dramatic poet was originally supposed to submit for production and competition four plays on the same theme, character, or family, consisting of a trilogy of tragic plays followed by a burlesque of the main theme in a
satyr-drama. This rule was followed by
Aeschylus, whose
Oresteia is the only true trilogy to survive, and it is reasonable to suppose that the satyr-drama which followed it dealt also with the House of Atreus; also that the surviving play
Prometheus Bound was the first of a trilogy on Prometheus. Later dramatists ignored the unity of subject, and submitted ‘pseudo-tetralogies’, in which all four plays dealt with different subjects.
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GADFLY DOES NOT MEAN JERK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/21/1993; 700+ words
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Editor's introduction: who are our contemporary gadflies?
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Financial Mail, London, Gadfly column.
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Gadfly creates big buzz online
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Going global? Reach out with a Bloomburger; GADFLY.
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Gadfly.
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gadflies
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
gadflies See TABNIDAE .
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gadfly
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
gadfly name for various biting flies, especially those that attack livestock, e.g., the botfly and the horsefly .
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Gold, Julie
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
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John Paul Stevens
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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James Dickey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...University when he was 23 years old. At college, he began to take his poetry seriously. Some of Dickey's poems appeared in The Gadfly, the Vanderbilt student literary magazine in 1947. The Sewanee Review was the first major periodical to publish his work...
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