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Greek Theatre History
General History
* Tyrants rule many of the city-states and Sparta has twain kings
* Hellenic colonization spreads through the Mediterranean and Asia
* The Acropolis is built in Athens
* King Nebuchadnezzar builds the Babylonian empire in 586 BC
* The Persian Wars take in 546 BC and Athens defeats the Persian forces in 479 BC
* Sparta helps to driveway tyrants from Athens, where the first direct democracy is developed
* The Parthenon is built in Athens as a temple of the goddess Athena from 447 BC-432 BC
* Peloponnesian wars begin in 431 BC, Sparta wins in 404 BC and controls Greece
* Greek Philosopher Plato founds a school on the outskirts of Athens and names it The Academy
* The punic Wars (Rome vs. Carthage) occur from 264 BC 146 BC

Theatrical Figures

- Aristophanes
Aristophanes was born to a wet Athenian family. His works define the genre of comic fun known today as Old Comedy. He wrote 40 jokes in his snip: 11 survive today. Aristophanes was the first to compile an anti-war comedy. The Acharnians, his first surviving play, focuses on the Peloponnesian War and its personal effects on the areas surrounding Athens.



His characters were based around political figures of his time: in The Knights he mocks Cleon (a rather poor politician). His plays had serious tones of heartbreak and loss due to a deteriorating Athens. He wrote Lysistrata twenty-one days after the start of the Peloponnesian War: a play about a woman who leads a revolt to displace the war. His plays won him many prizes at religious feasts such as Dionysia.

- Aeschylus
Known as the Father of Tragedy, Aeschylus was born in the city of Eleusis in 525 BC. He is said to have indite over 90 plays, only 7 of which survive today. He was twenty-five when he first entered a play into the festival of Dionysia, and he first won 15 years later. He introduced the second actor, and involved the chorus in the action of the play. He is also...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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