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Origin of Greek Play

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April 11, 2011

 

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Only four authors have survived in their entirety. Three of them are tragic playwrights, Aeschyus, Sophocles, and Euripidus and among the comic playwrights, only the works of Aristophanes have survived intact. The ancients distinguished between Tragedy and Comedy in two ways. The first, the Aristotelian tradition, defined tragedy as a drama which concerns better than average people (heroes, kings, gods) who suffer a transition from good fortune to bad fortune, and who speak in an elevated language...
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The first, the Aristotelian tradition, defined tragedy as a drama which concerns better than average people (heroes, kings, gods) who suffer a transition from good fortune to bad fortune, and who speak in an elevated language. Tragedy, in the Aristotelian tradition, serves the purpose of purging the soul of the "fear and pity"...
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