WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -ARISTOPHANES. Aristophanes, the most famous writer of Greek comedies, was born in the 440s b.c.e. He lived through the upheaval of the Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431 to 404, and stripped Athens of her place as cultural and political capital of the Greek city-states.

Detailed explanation-2: -There were two main types of plays that the Greeks performed: tragedies and comedies. 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. Comedy-Comedies were more light-hearted than tragedies.

Detailed explanation-3: -A special type of play called the satyr play made fun of Greek legends. We get our word satire from this. Some of the most famous Greek plays were “Oedipus Rex, ‘’ “Antigone, ‘’ “Electra, ‘’ “Medea, ‘’ “The Birds, ‘’ and “The Frogs.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Comedy: The first comedies were mainly satirical and mocked men in power for their vanity and foolishness. The first master of comedy was the playwright Aristophanes. Much later Menander wrote comedies about ordinary people and made his plays more like sit-coms.

Detailed explanation-5: -Lysistrata. Perhaps the most famous of ancient Greek comedies, the lewd and hilarious plot of ‘Lysistrata’ has seemed to age very well indeed. In this famous anti-war comedy, the women of Athens, led by the wise woman Lysistrata, have had enough of the Peloponnesian wars.