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Parent topics
- Ancient Greece [r]: The loose collection of Greek-speaking city-states centered on the Aegean Sea which flourished from the end of the Mycenaean age to the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC. [e]
- Tragedy [r]: An unfortunate event or chain of events which leads to suffering, loss of life, or serious repercussions, often expressed as drama or literature but the term can describe real-life events [e]
- Drama [r]: A type of literature, especially plays, meant to be delivered in spoken performance on stage. [e]
Subtopics
- Aeschylus [r]: (525–456 BCE) Earliest great Greek tragic dramatist; only 7 plays survive, including the trilogy the Oresteia (about the House of Atreus). [e]
- Euripides [r]: Greek tragic dramatist (c.480–c.406 BC), one of the three great tragedians of ancient Greece. Works include Medea, The Bacchae, Electra, and The Trojan Women. [e]
- Sophocles [r]: (496? - 406 BC) One of the three great Greek tragedians; wrote Electra, Oedipus the King, and Antigone. [e]
- Hero [r]: Someone who hazards his life in a noble cause [e]
Tragic heroes
- Oedipus [r]: In Greek mythology, the son of Laios and Jocasta who — without knowing it — killed his father and married his mother, making a prophecy come true. [e]
- Orestes [r]: In Greek mythology, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. [e]
- Ancient Rome [r]: The most powerful empire of the ancient world. [e]