choral ode

"Even in the most exultant choral odes, there's bloodlust.

Artistic highs come when the ensemble sings together in choral odes, their sumptuous harmonies ruminating on massive themes of good and evil.

Here comes the clamorous Dionysian throng!' Thus Claudia Crawford's essay opens with an imaginative reconstruction in the style of the exuberant choral odes of Euripides' Bacchae.

As the importance of the actors increased, the choral odes became fewer in number and tended to have less importance in the plot, until at last they became mere decorative interludes separating the acts.

Euripides ' characters speak a much more colloquial language than that of the other tragedians, but it is still poetry of a high order, especially in the choral odes.

Choral odes were also an integral part of the Greek drama.

The greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece, the master of epinicia, choral odes celebrating victories achieved in the various official games held throughout Greece.