CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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tragedy and humor
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comedy and sadness
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comedy and tragedy
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curiousness and adventurous
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Detailed explanation-1: -Support for PBS.org provided by: What’s this? The Ancient Greeks took their entertainment very seriously and used drama as a way of investigating the world they lived in, and what it meant to be human. The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Comedy and Tragedy are two genres of literature that traces their origins back to the Ancient Greece. In simple terms, the main difference between comedy and tragedy is that the comedy is a humorous story with a happy ending while a tragedy is a serious story with a sad ending.
Detailed explanation-3: -The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550BC and 220BC. A festival honouring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play. Western theatre has its roots in the theatre of Ancient Greece and the plays that originated there.
Detailed explanation-4: -Of more than 300 known tragedies, only 30* complete plays have survived-six* by Aeschylus, seven by Sophocles and 18 by Euripides.
Detailed explanation-5: -EURIPIDES. Euripides was the youngest of the three great tragedians. ARISTOPHANES. AESCHYLUS. SOPHOCLES.