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Greek Theatre Timeline

By: Godfre Tucci

540 BCE

540 BCE - 527

A Dionysian priest named Thespis became an actor. He is well-known for being the first actor.

530 BCE

530 BCE

Tragedy plays became popular in Greece, leading Pisistratus to establish a theater. It resembled the shape of a bowl so that everyone could see what was going on.

525 BCE

525 BCE

The first playwright for tragedy, Aeschylus, was born. He wrote many tragedies such as ‘Seven against Thebes’, Eumenides etc.

500 BCE

500 BCE

Pratinus of Philius introduced satiric drama to the festival. Satyrs were fictional characters that were half human and half goat.

496 BCE

496 BCE

Sophocles, a tragedy playwright, was born. He wrote tragedies which consisted of the ‘Ajax’, ‘Antigone’, and ‘Oedipus the King’.

485 BCE

485 BCE

485 BC: Euripides, another tragedy playwright, was born. He wrote ‘Medea’, ‘Orestes’ and ‘Helen’.

450

BCE

450 BCE

Aristophanes, a major comedy playwright was born. Aristophanes wrote the plays Acharmians (425 BCE), The Birds (414 BCE), and the Lysistrata (411 BCE)

380 BCE

380-330 BCE

Greek tragedies and comedies are criticized by Greek Philosophers Aristotle in his poetics and Plato in Plato's republic.

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