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A Dionysian priest named Thespis became an actor. He is well-known for being the first actor.
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.
The first playwright for tragedy, Aeschylus, was born. He wrote many tragedies such as ‘Seven against Thebes’, Eumenides etc.
Pratinus of Philius introduced satiric drama to the festival. Satyrs were fictional characters that were half human and half goat.
Sophocles, a tragedy playwright, was born. He wrote tragedies which consisted of the ‘Ajax’, ‘Antigone’, and ‘Oedipus the King’.
485 BC: Euripides, another tragedy playwright, was born. He wrote ‘Medea’, ‘Orestes’ and ‘Helen’.
Aristophanes, a major comedy playwright was born. Aristophanes wrote the plays Acharmians (425 BCE), The Birds (414 BCE), and the Lysistrata (411 BCE)
Greek tragedies and comedies are criticized by Greek Philosophers Aristotle in his poetics and Plato in Plato's republic.