... 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 authority of women, and the jokes frequently made about them or their intellect have shown, that though domestic life was restricting, they did exert some power. Namely, in Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" the noticeable power of women is through utilising or withholding their biological abilities. With the exception of the mundane scope however the question must be asked, if women were ... Their husbands and sons aspired to jobs as labourers in workshops or foundries or on construction schemes. Literature exhibits us a thoroughly masculine society. family life played no part. Timeworn co...

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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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