Didascaly

Didascaly, Greek Antiquity [modern ad. Greek διδασκαλία instruction, teaching; in plural as in quotation. So modern French didascalie.]^[1]

1. In The Catalogues of the ancient Greek Dramas, with their writers, dates, etc., such as were compiled by Aristotle and others.^[2]
2. The instruction of the chorus in ancient Greek theatre.^[3]
3. In ancient Greek theatre, the performance of a tetralogy.^[4]

Examples

• 1831 T. L. Peacock, Crotchet Castle vi. M887 70 "Did not they give to melopoeia, choregraphy, and the sundry forms of didascalies [printed -icsj, the precedence of all other matters, civil and military?"
• 1849 Grote Greece 11. lxvii. (1862) VI. 26 "The first, second and third [tetralogies] are specified in the Didaskalics or Theatrical Records."

See also

• Didascaliae
• Didascalia Apostolorum

References

1. Oxford English Dictionary (2003)
2. James Murray, Editor (1897) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Clarendon Press Oxford
3. Encyclopædia Britannica (2010)
4. August Witzschel (1850) The Athenian Stage, F. & J. Rivington, London (translated from the German, digitized by Google Books)