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Aristophanes , Aristophanes
BORN: 450 bce, Athens, Greece
DIED: 385 bce, Greece
NATIONALITY: Greek
GENRE: Plays
MAJOR WORKS:
The Acharnians (425 bce)
Peace (421 bce… Western Drama , c. 550 BC
The art of drama developed in the ancient Greek city-state of Athens in the late sixth century BC From the religious chants honoring Dionys… Comedy , Comedy
Limitations. The origins of comedy as a formal genre of drama are even more obscure than those of tragedy. Aristotle’s Poetics (after 335 b.c.… Menander , Menander
Menander
BORN: 342 bce, Athens, Greece
DIED: 292 bce, Piraeus, Greece
NATIONALITY: Greek
GENRE: Drama
MAJOR WORKS:
Anger (321 bce)
The Grouc… Radha , Rādhā
RĀDHĀ . The cowherd woman (gopī) whose passionate love for the god Kṛṣṇa has been celebrated in song and story throughout the Indian subcontine… Phanar , Phanar or Fanar (both: făn´ər, fənär´), Greek quarter of Constantinople (now İstanbul). Under the Ottoman Empire, Phanar was the residence of the pri…
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