What are the three major forms of Greek drama?
What will be an ideal response?
The satyr play was a farce honoring Dionysus through misbehavior; the Cyclops by Euripides, a whole satyr play, survives. The play spoofs or lampoons traditional Greek legend. Comedy plays are amusing or lighthearted stories designed to make audiences laugh. They freely slandered, buffooned, and ridiculed politicians, generals, public figures, and the gods. Foreigners were subjected to particular abuse, as were women. The works of Aristophanes are the only comedies to have survived; Lysistrata is the most famous. The basis of tragedy is conflict, the tensions of which—in the form of murder and revenge, crime and retribution, pride and humility—have serious consequences. Tragedies often explore the physical and moral depths to which human life can descend. The chorus structure survives as an important element in tragedy. Texts by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides survive.
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