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  2. Greek tragedy - Wikipedia

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    Greek tragedy is widely believed to be an extension of the ancient rites carried out in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and theatre, and it heavily influenced the theatre of Ancient Rome and the Renaissance.

  3. Theatre of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The Origins and Early Forms of Greek Tragedy, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1965. The Origins of ΤΡΑΓΩΙΔΙΑ, Hermes 85, 1957, pp. 17–46. Flickinger, Roy Caston, The Greek theater and its drama, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1918; Foley, Helene, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy, Princeton: Princeton University Press 2001.

  4. Greek chorus - Wikipedia

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    Getty Villa – Storage Jar with a chorus of Stilt walkers – inv. VEX.2010.3.65. A Greek chorus (Ancient Greek: χορός, romanized: chorós) in the context of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, is a homogeneous group of performers, who comment with a collective voice on the action of the scene they appear in, or provide necessary insight into action which has taken place offstage ...

  5. Aeschylus - Wikipedia

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    Aeschylus (UK: / ˈ iː s k ɪ l ə s /, [1] US: / ˈ ɛ s k ɪ l ə s /; [2] Ancient Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aischýlos; c. 525 /524 – c. 456 /455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy.

  6. Oedipus Rex - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, pronounced [oidípuːs týrannos]), or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. While some scholars have argued that the play was first performed c. 429 BC, this is highly uncertain. [1]

  7. Greek Shipwreck Tragedy: How to Help - AOL

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    A boat carrying as many as 750 Pakistani, Syrian, Egyptian, and Palestinian refugees and migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea—little was done to save them.

  8. Sophocles - Wikipedia

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    Sophocles [a] (c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.

  9. Melpomene - Wikipedia

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    Melpomene (/ m ɛ l ˈ p ɒ m ɪ n iː /; Ancient Greek: Μελπομένη, romanized: Melpoménē, lit. 'to sing' or 'the one that is melodious') is the Muse of tragedy in Greek mythology . She is described as the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (and therefore of power and memory) along with the other Muses, and she is often portrayed with a ...

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