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What does catastasis mean?

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Noun
  1. In classical drama, the third and penultimate section, in which action is heightened for the catastrophe.
  2. (rhetoric) The part of a speech that states the subject to be discussed.
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It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
Instead, in a more Brechtian key, we are left stranded in catastasis, and Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism forgoes anodyne closure in favor of sustained dissonance.
Joshua the Stylite, Philagathos' De siccitate, and Synesius of Cyrene's Catastasis.

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