"The next evolution is presented in Euripides. He is less ideal than his predeccesor, but truer to nature.…
"While Greek tragedt grew farther and farther away from the humor and burlesque so characteristic of…
"Tragedy masks. The origin of Greek drama is to be found in the yearly celebrations in honor of Dionysus,…
"Menander was an Athenian, and was born in B.C. 342. He was drowned at the age of 52, whilst swimming…
One of the first Greek amphitheaters, located in the political center of the Elymian people.
"This famous man, who has been called 'the chief literary glory of England', was born at Stratford-on-Avon."…
"Sophocles, the younger rival and immediate successor of Aeschylus in the tragic art, was born at Colonus,…