... trilogy) each poet had to present a satyr play - a farcical, often bawdy parody of the gods and their myths. Later, comedy, which developed in the mid-5th century BC, was also presented. The oldest extant comedies are by Aristophanes. They have a highly formal structure thought to be derived from ancient fertility rites. The humor consists of a mixture of satirical attacks ... on contemporary public figures, bawdy, scatological jokes, and seemingly sacrilegious parodies of the gods. By the 4th century BC comedy had supplanted tragedy as the dominant form. ANCIENT THEATERS ... , and Socr...

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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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