Ancient Greek comedy

The durability of clay has brought forth an immense abundance of Greek pottery, a craft mastered by Athenian artists. Archeologists have found hundreds of varieties in creation, shape, function, style, and artwork in Archaic vases. The museum has been blessed with one of these priceless artifacts; it is the duty of this establishment to accumulate as much data as possible surrounding the vase. In first identifying technique, dimensions, and condition, as well as describing shape, ornament, and figural

or not Antigone could be put under the category of a tragedy. Greek tragedies consist of three elements: the play includes a catastrophic and inevitable resolution; the protagonist, Antigone, causes all the problems; and finally, the tragic hero must have a tragic flaw or hamartia that leads to the catastrophe. To exemplify a Greek tragedy or drama, Antigone must correspond with the three principal characteristics that define a Greek drama. Antigone, comes to an end with a catastrophic and inevitable

What is Service? Why Serve? There is an old story about an ancient Greek philosopher named Thales. According to this tale, Thales was looking to the stars as he walked about Athens, attempting to answer certain troubling philosophical questions. He became so engaged in thought that he didn't even notice the well he was approaching. Needless to say, Thales, one of the most brilliant of ancient Greek philosophers, fell into that well and became the butt of many Athenian jokes. His head was so

A tragic hero is the main character in a tragedy story. He is the main theme. He is the source behind the main issues of the plot and some major points maybe cleared by observing his actions and nature. The tragic hero is always larger than life, a person of action whose decisions determine the fate of others. He is a man who is superior then the average person, a character of noble stature and greatness. Though the tragic hero is pre-eminently great, he is not perfect. Otherwise, the audience

hero” of Greek drama. In his work, Poetics, he defines a tragic hero as “...The man who on the one hand is not pre-eminent in virtue and justice, and yet on the other hand does not fall into misfortune through vice or depravity, but falls because of some mistake; one among the number of the highly renowned and prosperous.” Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero is clearly shown by the main character in the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Oedipus, the protagonist in this Greek tragedy

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It is known that in literature, a tragedy is one of the most popular genres. It always combines some story which discusses human sufferings with a certain sense of audience fulfillment. The roots of the tragedy are related to ancient Greece. A Greek tragedy is a sad story, which represents a character with a tragic flaw leading to his downfall. In addition, in traditional tragedy, the main character falls from high authority and often it is predetermined by fate, while the audience experiences catharsis

For Aristotle, the unity of temporality guarantees the unity of the plot’s action. The dramatic action, being the mimesis of representation, demands a certain magnitude to expand the temporality of the plot, “a length which allows of the hero passing by a series of probable of necessary stages from bad fortune to good, or from good to bad, may suffice as a limit for magnitude of a story” (Aristotle, 1450b45) Aristotle uses the subject of the Odyssey as an example of a tragic plot which encompasses

The opening scene of macbeth is a dark atmosphere, it is set in a dessert place, in the middle of a storm. In act one scene one the only characters that seem to appear in this scene are the three witches. The witches also seem to set the mood for the play. The atmosphere in the first act influences the whole play because it seems as dark and evil. Knowing things like witchcraft and supernatural adds to our understanding of the play that there is a supernatural darkness. It also is giving us an

Famous Ancient Greek philosophers: Socrates and Plato The human mind has always been puzzled with basic questions such as: who am I? Where the universe come from, and what is its purpose? How can I be happy? Greek philosophers who were” seekers and lovers of wisdom” tried to approach these life’s big questions sometimes in a scientific way, other times in mystic ways, but always imaginatively. Among them, we remember: Pythagoras of Samos, who was viewed as a charlatan because he believed in the doctrine