... over two centuries interestingly, the permanent stone theaters that survive today as ruins were not built until the 4th century BC - that is, after the classical period of playwriting. The open-air theaters may have consisted of an orchestra - a flat circular area used for choral dances-a raised stage behind it for actors, and a roughly semicircular seating area built into a hillside around the orchestra ... became leader of the popular party and head of the state in 460 BC, the city attained its greatest splendor. The constitution, reformed to further internal democracy, contained prov...

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... the landowners etc. Women were taught from birth that they were inferior to men and once they married, the husband gained ownership of the wife and household. In this period it was considered incest for in-law brother and sister to be intimate in any way which was the relationship in which Claudius ... but the elder generation probably would've been astounded and possibly offended by such controversial breakthroughs in playwriting whilst modern generations could relate to sense of rebellion of not following to conventions or rules although the oedipal complex is questionable to many. It ...

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