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Ancient Greek Playwrights (Yazan Ali Jadallah)
Ancient Greek Playwrights (Yazan Ali Jadallah)
Playwrights
DONE BY : YAZAN ALI JADALLAH
The main Greek playwrights.
Aeschylus.
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Which came first?
Sophocles was born in 496 BC, he was a successful plawright that made his first
play in 468 BC which was a strong entry for him in drama, he won his first prize
and overcome Aeschylus, some consider him the greatest playwright, and he
wrote 123 plays in total, which added things to drama like a third actor, and
focusing on the plot not on the chorus and the musical part, some of his plays are
Ajax, Antigone.
Euripides
Euripides is the youngest of all three he was born in 480s BC, his first play was in
455 BC, 4 out of 21 plays won, the majority of his plays was comedy, he did not
have a successful life, he had an unsuccessful marriage, what he added to drama is
the changing of myths and elements, and some of his plays are: medea, electra.
Aristophanes