... based on legends and Herodotus' history. Aeschylus, father of tragic drama Aeschylus is the earliest of the three great Greek tragic dramatists (the others are Sophocles and Euripides). His plays are marked by a strong moral sence, demonstrating that suffering is the inevitable consequence of sin, until the wrong doing has been expiated. Aeschylus enriched the drama with his technical innovations ... comic playwrights Aristophanes introduced the coarse type of comedy known as "old comedy". His plays slashed at social and political abuses. His jeers at the tragedies of Aeschylus and Eurip...

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