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What are some examples of the decrease in ancient Greek choruses?

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Aeschylus began with a chorus of 50, but the number was soon decreased to 12. Sophocles used a chorus of 15. In the 3d cent. BC the comic chorus contained only seven persons and in the 2d cent. BC only four, the tragic chorus having disappeared altogether.

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