Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Theatre Trivia Question 2

Who is considered the "Father of Greek Drama"?

a. Antiphanes
b. Aeschylus
c. Aristophanes
d. Alcaeus

The answe is B, Aeschylus!

Aeschylus (c. 525 BC/524 BC – c. 456 BC/455 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father of tragedy/drama, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow for conflict among them; previously, characters interacted only with the chorus. Only seven of an estimated seventy to ninety plays by Aeschylus have survived into modern times; one of these plays, Prometheus Bound, is widely thought to be the work of a later author.

Stay curious,
Team ARC

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