Dramatist of Greek Tragedy There were many dramatists in the years of B.C. There were three of them that were known more than any other. Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles. These three guys are much alike but they also have their differences. The "Father of Tragedy," Aeschylus was bor...

Contributions of Aeschylus and Sophocles to DramaThe most prestigious of the drama festivals held in Athens was the City Dionysia, held of a six-day period. Hundreds of visitors, dignitaries, and rural citizens crowded the city to see the spectacle. Aeschylus (524-456 B.C.) and Sophocles (496-406 ...

Aeschylus was born in 525 B.C. in the city of Eleusis. He has been referred to as the "Father of Tragedy." Early on in his life he was immersed in the rites of the city and in the worship of the mother and earth goddess Demeter. He was once sent to watch grapes ripen in the countryside. It...

COSTUMES AND MASKS IN GREEK DRAMA Greek Drama originated at the beginning of the 5th Century. It began as religious festivals and continued on to purposes such as entertainment and dealing with political, social, moral or ethical issues of the time. There were many famous Greek Playwrights such ...

Points of View Aeschylus faces off with Euripides in a dramatic contest and is declared the victor. The decision is one of cosmetics more than substance. Aeschylus wrote plays that appealed to the people of Athens. The Oresteia is a story with strong characters faced with difficult decisions in wh...

A Comparison of a Tragic Hero from Euripides's Medea and Aeschylus's Agamemnon Tragic heroes from Greek tragedies almost always share similar characteristics. Medea from Euripides's play Medea and Clytemnestra from Aeschylus's play Agamemnon display and share traits common to...

We should point out from the very beginning that both "Agamemnon" and "Beowulf", as literary works are marked throughout the text by the powerful, decisive personality of the two main characters. In this sense, deciding whether it is one or the other that is a better guide for l...

The theatre in the City Dionysia was a great semi-circle on the slope of the Acropolis, with rows of stone seats. The front row consisted of marble chairs; these were reserved for the priests of Dionysus and the chief magistrates. Beyond the front row was a circular space called the orchestra, where...

A mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability is called a hero; a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities. In early Greek plays, they are taller and larger than any other men. They were very strange and attractive, while an anti-hero i...

Before the year 479 BCE, most of the innovations from the Greeks were art in its most common form and in the mathematics and sciences. Examples of this are Pythagoras in 525; he developed a throm about right triangles. It wasn\'t until aproxiamtely 458 Bce that the first tragedy was created. Drama h...

Trilogies of Greek drama are sometimes based upon a reoccurring theme. In Aeschylus' The Orestia, the theme of the "curse on the house of Atreus" foreshadows the fate of the trilogies characters. The curse is based upon the revenge ethic. It is believed that justice and personal rev...

The Role of Fate and the Gods in Antigone Divine law can be defined as a rule or regulation coming directly from the gods. According to Greek mythology, each god is believed to possess individual and unique powers that can either help or hinder the lives of mortals. Their role in the lives of h...

Aristotle defines Greek tragedy by the presence of a 'great mistake' performed by the protagonist due to particular flaws, which leads to an inevitable sequence of events. One of the flaws is that of Hubris, the capital sin of pride, and thus the antithesis of two ethics that the Greeks...

Orestes was one of posterity of the house of Atreus. He also was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia. The main character of The Libation Bearers, the second part of Aeschylus¡¯ great trilogy, the Oresteia, Orestes was able to go through with his father¡Â...