Antistrophe
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This article is about art form. For the use of antistrophe in figures of speech, see Epistrophe. For the plant genus, see Antistrophe (plant).
Antistrophe (Ancient Greek: ἀντιστροφή, "a turning back"[1]) is the portion of an ode sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east in response to the strophe, which was sung from east to west.[2]
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