Word: scholia
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...performed in the orchestra, is of great importance even to the general reader, as the whole stage action is involved. Until very lately, scholars following the scholiast have interpreted Greek drama from the standpoint of the existence of a stage, basing their opinions first on the authority of the scholia and certain phrase. which were taken to refer to the passages up or down of the actor as he went up the stairs to the stage from the orchestra or decended to the orchestra from the stage; secondly, on the inferences which it seemed could be drawn from from ruins...