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GREEK DRAMA

GREEK DRAMA. COMEDIES & TRAGEDIES. Theater of Dionysus, Athens. Greek Theater, Epidaurus, Greece. COMEDIES. Satire about public life and politics Aristophanes Lysistrata , The Clouds, and The Frogs. TRAGEDIES.

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GREEK DRAMA

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  1. GREEK DRAMA COMEDIES & TRAGEDIES

  2. Theater of Dionysus, Athens

  3. Greek Theater, Epidaurus, Greece

  4. COMEDIES • Satire about public life and politics • Aristophanes • Lysistrata, The Clouds, and The Frogs

  5. TRAGEDIES • Characters' search for the meaning of life and the nature of the gods often ending in death • Sophocles • Oedipus Rex and Antigone • Euripides • Medea, Hercules and The Trojan Women • Aeschylus • The Persians and the Oresteia trilogy • (oldest tragedies in history)

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