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Define pentology.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Wikipedia, sweetheart ;) Pentalogy is a compound literary or narrative work that is explicitly divided into five (numerical prefix penta-) parts. Although modern use of the word implies both that the parts are reasonably self-contained and that the structure was intended by the author, historically, neither was necessarily true: in fact, a pentalogia could be assembled by a later editor,[1] just as Plotinus's Enneads were arranged in nines by Porphyry in order to create an overarching structure of six which would express the idea of perfection.

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