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the genre that lets you cry about strangers so you don't cry about yourself
means A serious dramatic work, or a real-life event, in which suffering or disaster leads to a sorrowful or catastrophic end.
from From Greek 'tragōidia,' literally 'goat-song' — 'tragos' (goat) plus 'ōidē' (song). Why goats? Nobody's quite sure: maybe a goat was the prize for the winning chorus, maybe goats were sacrificed at the festival of Dionysus where these plays were performed, or maybe the chorus dressed as the goat-legged satyrs of his entourage. The word passed through Latin 'tragoedia' and Old French before reaching English.
- goat origin
- the word means goat-song in ancient Greek
- required ending
- Aristotle demanded the hero fall through their own flaw
- public therapy
- Athens funded mass grief as civic ritual
- close kin
- the same mask shop made comedy faces too
titanic sinking — 1,500+ deaths when the ship struck an iceberg and sank in 1912
challenger space shuttle — 7 astronauts killed when o-ring failure caused explosion on january 28, 1986
armenian genocide — 1.5 million armenians killed by ottoman empire between 1915-1923