In Greek drama, the strophe (turning) signified the first section of a choral ode, and was recited by the Chorus as it moved across the stage. The Chorus’s movement back to its original side was accom [..]

c. 1600, from Greek strophe "stanza," originally "a turning," in reference to the section of an ode sung by the chorus while turning in one direction, from strephein "to turn, [..]

In classical Greek literature like the play Antigonê and the Pindaric Odes, the strophe and the antistrophe were alternating stanzas sung aloud. In drama, the chorus would sing the strophe, probably w [..]

A stanza or other grouping of lines within a poem. In classical odes the term is used of the first group of lines which might be followed by an antistrophe which exactly replicates the form of the str [..]

The first stanza of a Pindaric ode. See ode.  

(n) one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama

(prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other. (prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left ac [..]