Tag Archives: tragédie

Le blog (américain) Veritable Hokum est tenu par le dessinateur Korwin Briggs qui présente son travail ainsi : Veritable Hokum is a comic about mostly history, maybe science, and possibly some other stuff too. Think of it as a comic-encyclopedia, or a picture-almanac. It’s split between one-shot explanations of things I think are weird or funny or cool, and longer, …

Le blog “SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE” nous rappelle, à partir d’un extrait de l’introduction aux Scholia de l’Alexandra de Lycophron par le poème du Moyen-Âge John Tzetzes ( ou son frère Isaac), l’étymologie (supposée) des mots “comédie” et “tragédie” : “Comedy is named either because of the time of the revel (kôma), since it was developed near sleep; because of the neighborhoods …