英语词汇tragedy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tragedy. “Goat singer,” the Greek tragodia, is the earliest an- cestor of the word tragedy. But we don’t know exactly why R. C. Trench wrote in On the Study of Words (1888): “There is no question that tragedy is the song of the goat; but why the song of the goat, whether because a goat was the prize for the best performance of that song in which the germs of the future trag- edy lay, or because the first actors were dressed, like satyrs, in goatskins, is a question which has stirred abundant discussion, and will remain unsettled to the end.”

词汇	tragedy
词源	tragedy. “Goat singer,” the Greek tragodia, is the earliest an- cestor of the word tragedy. But we don’t know exactly why R. C. Trench wrote in On the Study of Words (1888): “There is no question that tragedy is the song of the goat; but why the song of the goat, whether because a goat was the prize for the best performance of that song in which the germs of the future trag- edy lay, or because the first actors were dressed, like satyrs, in goatskins, is a question which has stirred abundant discussion, and will remain unsettled to the end.”
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