| The story is presented by nine choric dancers who, in their dark glasses and black skullcaps, resemble a sinister Gallic mime troupe. |
| The Exode is that entire part of a tragedy which has no choric song after it. |
| He praises her perfection in hyperbolic, mythological terms in the long speech which precedes the choric conclusion to the play. |
| These were days when the proa went shouting across the empty southern seas to madrigal and choric song. |
| This song is sung by Pete Townshend, whose voice in the film is a kind of choric narrator, directly addressing the audience as in Greek tragedy. |
| The book became the record of this great tragedy, in which these prophecies take the place of the choric odes in a Greek drama. |
