tragedian• He kept referring to Wehman as a tragedian.• Mones held himself as stiffly as a nineteenth-century tragedian, and filled his lines with sentiment.• I knew what Aristophanes had said, what Agathon, the tragedian, had said, what Alcibiades had said.• After Homer, the tragedians of fifth-century Athensreveal a dualist universe in which Zeus is transcendent and man introspective.• If there were tragedy clubs at which people came to watch stand-uptragedians, Mr Brown would be a star.