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What is a parabasis?

What is a parabasis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Ancient Greece) The part of an Ancient Greek comedy in which the actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly.
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This paper discusses the ode and antode of Aristophanes Clouds with a view to appreciating the author's self-presentation in the parabasis.
The Chorus is important, and peculiar to Old Comedy are the agon and parabasis.
They were also remarkable for the absence of the parabasis and chorus.

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