... so easy. It looks as if they were able to compose literary classics overnight. As if their mind never stops to pause but keeps on creating. Sophocles has it and Aristophanes has it, though both had it on different plans of writing Greeks literary masterpieces. To be a writer of Greek stories, plays you cannot lack, cannot be a second rate writer. Now ... reach the theater. If you did not win a bard you were seen as anything but great, and anything less than great did not cut it. Greek writers of tragedy and comedy paved the road of greatness that is used down through the ages from such ...

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... science and biology. Pythagoras was also a mathematician like Archimedes who was also an engineer. We can find out about Pythagoras' theorem on right-angled triangles today. Great people like Sophocles & Aristophanes wrote plays that are famous even today. These plays were performed in the theatre. There were great developments in the field of mathematics and medicine. Philosophers such as Socrates, Plato ... the psychological world of human passions and emotions. Sophocles is most famous for his characterization, graceful language, and sense of calm and proportion. Comedy was also seen...

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... the psychological world of human passions and emotions. Sophocles is most famous for his characterization, graceful language, and sense of calm and proportion. Comedy was also seen during the 400's BC. Aristophanes, who wrote plays in the style Old Comedy, was a great writer of comic plays. His plays reflected the spirit of Athens at that time. Their spirit was that of freedom, vitality ... was defeated in the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC, and there was less freedom of speech. With its elements of political and social satire, government leaders no longer permitted Old Comedy. Prose had s...

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... the pain of the people, included contemporary messages and asked the Athenians to reflect on their actions. The Greek comedy helped to release anxieties while criticizing public figures. The best of the Greek comedies used humor to express serious problems. The playwright Aristophanes tried to preserve traditional values while using political satire to criticize contemporary Athens. He wrote the comical antiwar play ... ...

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