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The word '''tragedy''' originates in Greek as ''tragōidiā'' (Classical Greek τραγῳδία) contracted from ''trag(o)-aoidiā'' = "goat song" from ''tragos'' = "goat" and ''aeidein'' = "to sing". This dates back to a time when [[religion]] and [[theatre]] were more or less intertwined in early [[ritual]] events. Goats were traditionally sacrificed, and as a precursor, the Greek Chorus would sing a song of sacrifice-- a "Goat Song". This may also refer to the horse or goat costumes worn by actors who played the [[satyr]]s in early dramatizations of [[myth]]ological stories, or a goat being presented as a prize at a song contest and in both cases the reference would have been the respect for [[Dionysus]].

The word '''tragedy''' originates in Greek as ''tragōidiā'' (Classical Greek τραγῳδία) contracted from ''trag(o)-aoidiā'' = "goat song" from ''tragos'' = "goat" and ''aeidein'' = "to sing". This dates back to a time when [[religion]] and [[theatre]] were more or less intertwined in early [[ritual]] events. Goats were traditionally sacrificed, and as a precursor, the Greek Chorus would sing a song of sacrifice-- a "Goat Song". This may also refer to the horse or goat costumes worn by actors who played the [[satyr]]s in early dramatizations of [[myth]]ological stories, or a goat being presented as a prize at a song contest and in both cases the reference would have been the respect for [[Dionysus]].

 

 

 

Tragedy (fr. Greek τραγῳδία, ''tragōidia'', "goat-song") is a form of [[The arts|art]] based on human [[suffering]] that offers its [[audience]] [[pleasure]]. In his speculative work on the origins of Athenean tragedy, ''The Birth of Tragedy'' (1872), Nietzsche writes of this "two-fold mood": "the strange mixture and [[duality]] in the affects of the Dionysiac enthusiasts, that [[phenomenon]] whereby pain awakens pleasure while rejoicing wrings cries of agony from the breast. From highest joy there comes a cry of horror or a yearning lament at some irredeemable loss. In those Greek festivals there erupts what one might call a sentimental tendency in [[nature]], as if it had cause to sigh over its dismemberment into [[individual]]s"  

Tragedy (fr. Greek τραγῳδία, ''tragōidia'', "goat-song") is a form of [[The arts|art]] based on human [[suffering]] that offers its [[audience]] [[pleasure]]. In his speculative work on the origins of Athenean tragedy, ''The Birth of Tragedy'' (1872), Nietzsche writes of this "two-fold mood": "the strange mixture and [[duality]] in the affects of the Dionysiac enthusiasts, that [[phenomenon]] whereby pain awakens pleasure while rejoicing wrings cries of agony from the breast. From highest joy there comes a cry of horror or a yearning lament at some irredeemable loss. In those Greek festivals there erupts what one might call a sentimental tendency in [[nature]], as if it had cause to sigh over its dismemberment into [[individual]]s"