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Thespis (/ ˈ θ ɛ s p ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Θέσπις; fl. 6th century BC) was an Ancient Greek poet. [1] He was born in the ancient city of Icarius (present-day Dionysos, Greece ). [ 2 ] According to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle , he was the first human to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a ...
Aristophanes (c. 446–388 BC), a leading source for Greek Old Comedy. The Acharnians (425 BC) The Knights (424 BC) The Clouds (423 BC) The Wasps (422 BC) Peace (421 BC) The Birds (414 BC) Lysistrata (411 BC) Thesmophoriazusae (c. 411 BC) The Frogs (405 BC) Assemblywomen (c. 392 BC) Plutus (388 BC) Pherecrates 420 BC; Diocles of Phlius ...
For achieving his end Euripides' regular strategy is a very simple one: retaining the old stories and the great names, as his theatre required, he imagines his people as contemporaries subjected to contemporary kinds of pressures, and examines their motivations, conduct and fate in the light of contemporary problems, usages and ideals.
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.
He was likely the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy. His Oresteia is the only extant ancient example. [8] At least one of his plays was influenced by the Persians' second invasion of Greece (480–479 BC). This work, The Persians, is one of very few classical Greek tragedies concerned with contemporary events, and the only one ...
List of ancient Greek playwrights; Antidotus (poet) Antiphanes (comic poet) Aphareus (writer) Apollodorus of Carystus; Apollodorus of Gela; Araros; Archippus (poet) Aristarchus of Tegea; Aristias; Aristophon (comic poet) Astydamas; Astydamas the Elder; Athenion (actor) Athenion (comic poet) Autocrates
Greek tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, romanized: tragōidía) is one of the three principal theatrical genres from Ancient Greece and Greek-inhabited Anatolia, along with comedy and the satyr play. It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC, the works of which are sometimes called Attic tragedy.
It was conventional in Old Comedy for the chorus to speak on behalf of the author during an address called the parabasis, where some biographical facts can usually be found. These facts, however, relate almost entirely to his career as a dramatist and the plays contain few clear and unambiguous clues about his personal beliefs or his private life.