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Why Was Athens Important To Greek Theatre

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Before the concept of the television, there was the play. Theatre, despite not being as watched as movies and television today, is just as important if not more. Without theatre, we wouldn’t have acting or stories, and a world without stories would be very bland. You can’t have a story without characters and setting, and that’s what theatre did. Now, theatre wasn’t really popular until one part in history, and that was in the time of Athens, Greece. Why was Athens so important in theatre and plays, you may ask? Well, that was because of their comedy. So, it’s 6th Century BC, also known as the Hellenic era. Greece is the world superpower at the time, but everyone in Greece has all these rules. Most of the plays at the time were just mythologies

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