... , became the most important literary form during the Golden Age. Three great tragic playwrights were Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus is noted for the seriousness, complexity of thought and majestic language. Euripides was called the "philosopher of the stage." His plays explore 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 ...

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... ethics and justice reflect the dominating views of well-educated and experienced people of his time. Unlike Plato's view, they are neither filled with mystical religiosity, nor support those unorthodox theories of family and property "Res Publica- contains. In Aristotle's view the function of ethics is to unite different aims of human behavior: to define what is Good, and what conditions ... redress their weakness, uniting with each other, but in their natural inclination to solidarity. His expression "A human being is a social animal by his nature- has become a classical one. For Arist...

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