... 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 ... lives of the characters. Drama, especially tragedy, became the most important literary form. Three great tragic playwrights were Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Aeschylus is noted for the seriousness, complexity of thought and majestic language. His plays explore the ps...

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... new developments in literary form, specifically the creation of theatre and drama with its two components tragedy and comedy. There were three great tragic playwrights ancient Athens; Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles. Sophocles (496-406 BC) wrote over 100 plays including Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Ajax, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, and Oedipus of Colonus. Most of the plays deal with tragedy. For example, ... . She does this knowing she will be killed for going against the king, who is her husband. This play shows family values where blood is thicker than water (Doc. 6, Sophocles). Th...

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... known facts about Homer are 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 ... and of the Persian invasions in Greece (490-480 B.C). His account of Greek heroism at the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis has stirred readers for more than 2,000 years. Sophocles ...

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... literature, flourished. These years are referred to as the Golden Age. Drama, especially tragedy, 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...

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... plays the lead character struggles against fate and or doom. There were many great writers but three of the best were named Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aeschylus wrote 90 great tragedy plays and sadly only seven survived! Also Sophocles served as a general in the Athenian army. Also Euripides, he believed that plays shouldn't be about gods or goddesses so he focused his ... ...

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... wisdom one would not be able to achieve a very high level of happiness. Many Greek authors and historians expressed their personal opinions, which mirrored most of society in their works. Sophocles" plays and general theatre productions such as Oedipus and Medea portrayed many views of the Greek society and those of the playwrites themselves. One can see through the works of ... Greek plays such as, "Oedipus" or "Antigone", "Medea", and other historical accounts that the Greeks believed that there is no happiness where there is no wisdom. In the work of Sophocles" "Oedipus" and "Antigon...

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... . They envisioned Greece being the center of all beauty and inspiration, with monuments of no comparison. Having these edifices constructed, Pericles, the leader of the democratic faction and a friend of Sophocles, dreamt of Athens as the leader of a panhellenic confederacy, as an ideal democracy, and above all as a city with magnificent edifices, temples, public buildings and theatres, (Durant). These buildings were ... ...

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... and Xenophon make it exceedingly evident that when a gentleman entertained friends the only women present were those who had no reputation to lose, apart from a professional one. Twice in tragedy (Sophocles' Electra and Antigone) women are bluntly ordered to go indoors, which is their appropriate place. Jebb, commenting on Antigone 579, quotes a poetic fragment: 'Nor permit her to be seen outside ... ...

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... truth and knowledge. This contrasts with Oedipus at the beginning of the play, but nevertheless foreshadows Oedipus's own future, with the anargnorsis causing him to blind himself. Using irony allows Sophocles to tantalize the audience into wanting to see how the events occurring mentally affect Oedipus regardless of whether they are already aware of the story. Irony is seen continuously in ... ...

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... key cultural facet. Some of the most well known dramatists emerged during the "golden age." Aeschylus wrote about betrayal, murder and reconciliation in his trilogy of plays name The Oresteia. Sophocles wrote a play called Antigone in which he explains the divine law over human defects and referred to the need for credit of the law and recognition to it as a prerequisite ... ...

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