WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A tragedy is a genre that focuses on human suffering and does not have a happy ending. To the ancient Greeks, tragedies were a way to purge themselves emotionally.

Detailed explanation-2: -Types of Plays: Tragedy-Greek tragedies were very serious plays with a moral lesson. They usually told the story of a mythical hero who would eventually meet his doom because of his pride.

Detailed explanation-3: -Comedy and Tragedy were two major types of Greek plays and the playwrights did not mix them in the same play. Comedy comes from the Greek word Komoidia, which means merrymaking. Tragedy (tragoidia) was derived from the word tragos, which means goat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nearly every Greek and Roman city of note had an open-air theater, the seats arranged in tiers with a lovely view of the surrounding landscape. Here the Greeks sat and watched the plays first of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, and of Menander and the later playwrights.

Detailed explanation-5: -tragedy, branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual. By extension the term may be applied to other literary works, such as the novel.