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List of ancient Greek playwrights. Thespis (c. 6th century BC): Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BC): The Persians (472 BC) Seven Against Thebes (467 BC) The Suppliants (463 BC) The Oresteia (458 BC, a trilogy comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides.) Prometheus Bound (authorship and date of performance is still in dispute)
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore of Eleusis, Aeschylus' hometown. Aeschylus was born around 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometres (17 mi) northwest of Athens, in the fertile valleys of western Attica. [ 11 ] Some scholars argue that the date of Aeschylus's birth may be based on counting back 40 years from his first victory in the ...
Aristophanes (/ ˌærɪˈstɒfəniːz /; [ 2 ] Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης, pronounced [aristopʰánɛːs]; c.446 – c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. [ 3 ] He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today.
Theatre of ancient Greece. Bronze statue of a Greek actor, 150–100 BC. The half-mask over the eyes and nose identifies the figure as an actor. He wears a man's conical cap but female garments, following the Greek custom of men playing the roles of women. Later, slave women were brought in to play minor female characters and in comedy as well.
Euripides[ a ] (c.480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most.
Menander (/ məˈnændər /; Greek: Μένανδρος Menandros; c. 342/41 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek dramatist and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. [1] He wrote 108 comedies [2] and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. [3] His record at the City Dionysia is unknown.
Setting. Before the Propylaea, or gateway to the Acropolis of Athens, 411 BCE. Lysistrata (/ laɪˈsɪstrətə / or / ˌlɪsəˈstrɑːtə /; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē, lit.'army disbander') is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC.
Thespis (/ ˈθɛspɪs /; Greek: Θέσπις; fl. 6th century BC) was an Ancient Greek poet. [1] He was born in the ancient city of Icarius (present-day Dionysos, Greece). [2] According to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, he was the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead ...