Important+Greek+Playwrites


 * Greek Authors**

//Anacreon// Sometimes little is known of these poets, an example would be Anacreon. Through the years Literature Examiners were unsettled by the lack of information, but now they have learned how to read into the text and learn a little, “Certain themes in Anacreon's poetry- especially love, drinking, and the refined pleasures of life- suggest that he had an aristocratic background.” says Salem Press. Anacreon was born in the era of the first Greek tragedy and the estimated time when first pre-Socratic philosophers.

//Aristophanes// Aristophanes was known for his comedy in poetry. While there were only few known rivals to him, Aristole points out that his "jokes" were personally directed. There is little known about Greek comedy today because Aristophanes' documents were the only surviving from that era. "All surviving comedies from Classical Greece were written by one man, Aristophanes..." says World Eras. Ancient scolars split up this Greek era into three groups, Old, Middle, and New. Even in the middle there were few pieces of literature that survived. There were only about three pieces of literature from Aristophanes, one being his comical poetry and two others being plays. Alot of literature found in the middle and old era were only parts, they weren't finished or the halves were lost.

Euripides Euripides was a great playwright, even though he was not respected and only won five awards for his plays he is well known today. According to Theatre Database “Of the three great tragic poets of Greece, Euripides was by far the most modern.” He was a poet, as most playwrights tend to be. Through a period in time he was stuck on exposing evil in his community. Throughout this time Euripides was the butt of many jokes, even by his colleague Aristophanes. Euripides wrote many plays, some of them being //Trojan Woman//, his last play //Iphigenia at Aulis// and the only complete satyr play in existence, The Cyclops.

//Sophocles// Sophocles is considered the greatest playwright of ancient Greece. He was born near Athens in a city named Clonos. He had a very wealthy father,and all the friends and associates he had were well known and highly ranked. At the age of 28 he won first place for a dramatic competition in which he had beaten another important Greek playwright named Aeschilus. In Sophocles' life time he won many more awards out of all his awards he won 20 with coming in first place. Many of Sophocles' tradgide plays that he is most know for is Antigone,Oedipus Rex and Electra. In many of his playwrights he wrote about peoples destiny and the consequences of their actions. He enjoyed writing on the subject so much that he showed how his characters should act.
 * Bibliographys:**
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 * 2) "Tragedy's Only Joke?" //GaleNet//. World Eras, 2007. Web. 10 Nov. 2010. [|http://go.galegroup.com].
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