CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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Dramatist who used painted scenery and three actors to tell a story.
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Sophocles
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Pythagoras
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Euclid
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Thucydides
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Aeschylus’ younger contemporary, Sophocles, added a third actor and painted scenery and expanded the chorus from twelve men to fifteen.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sophocles influenced playwriting phenomenally. His introduction of a third speaking character was groundbreaking, as was his use of painted sets.
Detailed explanation-3: -Aristotle, in his Poetics (c. 335 BC), used Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex as an example of the highest achievement in tragedy.
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