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2. Ancient Greek comedy - Wikipedia

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   The Alexandrine grammarians, and most likely Aristophanes of Byzantium in particular, seem to have been the first to divide Greek comedy into what became the canonical three periods: [3] Old Comedy (ἀρχαία archaía), Middle Comedy (μέση mésē) and New Comedy (νέα néa). These divisions appear to be largely arbitrary, and ancient ...

3. List of extant ancient Greek and Roman plays - Wikipedia

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   Old Comedy survives through the eleven extant plays of Aristophanes and New Comedy through two mostly extant works of Menander. While Old Comedy parodied contemporary Athenian politics, leaders, and institutions, New Comedy features average citizens and parodies the cultural practices of the time.

4. Old Comedy - Wikipedia

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   Old Comedy is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians. [1] The most important Old Comic playwright is Aristophanes – whose works, with their daring political commentary and abundance of sexual innuendo, de facto define the genre.

5. Peace (play) - Wikipedia

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   Peace (Ancient Greek: Εἰρήνη Eirḗnē) is an Athenian Old Comedy written and produced by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It won second prize at the City Dionysia where it was staged just a few days before the validation of Peace of Nicias, which promised to end the ten-year-old Peloponnesian War, in 421 BC. The play is notable for ...

6. Lists of historical films - Wikipedia

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   List of films set in ancient Rome; List of films set in ancient Greece; List of films set in ancient Egypt; List of war films and TV specials; List of English Civil War films; List of films about the American Revolution; List of films set during the French Revolution and French Revolutionary Wars; List of Napoleonic Wars films

7. List of fiction set in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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   The Romance of Alexander and Roxana (1909) The Romance of Alexander the King (1909) Nicholas Nicastro, Empire of Ashes (2004) Scott Oden, Memnon (2006) Robert Payne, Alexander the God (1954) Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War (2005) Mary Renault, Alexander trilogy Fire from Heaven (1969) — the early life of Alexander the Great

8. List of films based on classical mythology - Wikipedia

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   [Greece] The Trojan Women: 1971 [UK, USA, Greece] Iphigenia: 1977 [Greece] - Set in the port town of Aulis, Greece immediately before the Greek expeditionary force set sails to attack Troy. Due to unfavorable weather conditions, king Agamemnon of Mycenae offers his daughter Iphigenia as a human sacrifice to the goddess Artemis.

9. Category:Films set in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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   View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... Pages in category "Films set in ancient Greece" The following 60 pages are in ...