C C 303 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sophocles, Euripides, Unit
13 Dec 2018
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Classical athens: athens was the birthplace of democracy, and also played a major role in developing greek tragedies. In 508 bce, cleisthenes invented democracy in athens, and it was an extremely succesful polis. Athens grew to become a strong maritime power, and played an important role in defeating the persians when they invaded in 490-479 bce: following their victory, athens began to grow in power by subjugating nearby city states. This led to the pelopenessian war between sparta and. Athens, which ended athenian superiority: between 338-323 bce, athens was invaded by alexander the great, and. Athenian culture to flourish, thus producing great literary works: famous greek tragedies include sophocles" ajax and eurpides" bacchae. Aristotle"s theory of tragedy: aristotle was a greek philosopher, born in macedonia in 384 bce. He was involved with theater, poetry and science and studied under plato: aristotle believed that there were 6 componenets of tragedy plot, character, thought, diction, melody and spectacle.
