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There is some dissent to the dithyrambic origins of tragedy, mostly based on the differences between the shapes of their choruses and styles of dancing.{{sfn|Nietzsche|1999}} A common descent from pre-[[Ancient Greece|Hellenic]] fertility and burial rites has been suggested.{{sfn|Nietzsche|1999}} [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] discussed the origins of Greek tragedy in his early book ''[[The Birth of Tragedy]]'' (1872). Here, he suggests the name originates in the use of a chorus of goat-like [[satyr]]s in the original [[dithyramb]]s from which the tragic genre developed.
Scott Scullion writes: {{blockquote|There is abundant evidence for tragoidia understood as "song for the prize goat". The best-known evidence is Horace, Ars poetica 220-24 ("he who with a tragic song competed for a mere goat"); the earliest is the Parian Marble, a chronicle inscribed about 264/63 BCE, which records, under a date between 538 and 528 BCE: "Thespis is the poet ... first produced ... and as prize was established the billy goat" (FrGHist 239A, epoch 43); the clearest is Eustathius 1769.45: "They called those competing tragedians, clearly because of the song over the billy goat"...<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scullion |first=Scott |title=Companion to Greek tragedy |date=2007 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-4051-5205-1 |editor-last=Gregory |editor-first=Justina |location=Hoboken, NJ |page=29 |chapter=Tragedy and Religion: The Problem of Origins |oclc=299571432 |chapter-url=https://
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