exodos

noun

1. A final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.

   The exodos requires three actors, one for the Athenian (thirty iambic trimeters), one for his companion (five iambic trimeters) and one for the Spartan Singer (three iambic trimeters and around forty lyrical lines).

   1994, Carlo Ferdinando Russo (author and translator), Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage, [1962, Aristofane autore di teatro], page 173,

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “a departure”). Doublet of exodus.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry exodos (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← exodeexolete →

Another random word More words starting with E