Theater, as many as other things, was a greek invention. Greek theater origins began in the VI century A.C as a form of party in order to celebrate and honor Doinisio who was a god.
This parties were mostly religious and the were done in the city around the second week of March. …show more content…
This different characters focused on tragedy. Esquilo (456-525 A.C) is considered the creator of greek tragedy. He would mostly inspire his work in mythology topics. Only one of his tragedies was inspired in other situations, which was a play about the Persians. All of his other work was mostly about different gods with unreal powers and superhumans.His most famous plays were The Persians, The seven against Thebes, Agamemnon, The Suppliants. (PAGINA DE DONDE LO SAQUE)He talks in a sonorous language, grandiloquent, large amount of metaphors, but his strong and tragic scenes was what impressed and got the audience excited. Another great character was Sofocles (406-496 A.C). Although religion and moral kept being the main dramatic topics; the will, the decisions and the individual's destiny became the main interest of greek tragedy. Sofocles was mostly interested on presenting feelings and emotions on his play, usually they would be shown through humans exposed to different and extreme situations caused by destiny. His most famous plays were Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Electra, Ajax among others.(PAGINA DE DONDE LO SAQUE) The last main character is Euripides (406-480 A.C). He would mostly focus on painting dramas of real life situations; the problems and passions that would agitate the contemporaries Athenians would be shown through his actors that would perform different …show more content…
These characteristics are fundamental to distinguish a tragedy and a drama, because the forces that are being conflicting are the same, anyone can