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FAMOUS ANCIENT GREEKS

~Aeschylus

~Euripides

~Sophocles

~Aristophanes

~Archimedes 

~Alexander the Great

Aeschylus

   

Aeschylus was born in the city of Eleuisis, near Athens in 525 BC and died in 456 BC. Aeschylus was a Greek dramatist, the earliest of the city's great tragedy poets. As the predecessor of  Sophocles and Euripides, he is the founder of Greek tragedy.

Some of Aeschylus' plays were:

- Agamemnon

- The Choephori      

- Eumenides

- Libation Bearers

- The Persians

- Prometheus Bound

- The Seven Against Thebes

- The Suppliants

EURIPIDES

    Euripides was born in 480 BC and died 406 BC. He was the third of the three Greek dramatist, the other two being Sophocles and Aeschylus. His work, which was quite popular in his own time, exerted great influence on Roman drama. In more recent times he has influenced English and German drama, the most conspicuous of which include French dramatic poets such as Pierre Corneille and Jean Baptiste. 

Some of Euripides' plays were:

- Alcestis

- Andromache

- The Bacchantes

- The Cyclops

- Electra

- Hecuba

SOPHOCLES

    Sophocles was a great poet who wrote over a hundred plays and knew all of the arts. He was born in a wealthy merchant's family so he enjoyed all the luxuries of the rich Greek empire. He was a tragic poet, known for his depressing plays. At the age of 28, later defeated Aeschylus, also known as the Father of Tragedies. It was said that it was impossible to defeat him. Later on, he was beaten by Euripides, another young dramatist.

Some of Sophocles' plays were:

- Ajax

- Antigone

- Electra

- Oedipus at Colonus

- Oedipus the King

- Philoctetes

- The Trachiniae

ARISTOPHANES
                                            Of all the writers of “Old Comedy", only one remains.
By the time Aristophanes began to write his comedies, democracy had already begun to sour for the Athenians.

Some of Aristophanes' plays are:

ACHARNIANS


KNIGHTS


CLOUDS


WASPS

PEACE


BIRDS
 

ARCHIMEDES

    Archimedes was the greatest mathematical genius of his time. He had discovered many modern science such as integral calculus. He was greatly respected and he was also Greek. Archimedes died when he was discovering something new and said to a soldier, "Don't disturb my circle."

Alexander the Great

        Alexander was born on 356 B.C. He was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia and he was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, and of Olympia, a princess of Epirus. Unfortunately in the summer of 336 B.C. his father was assassinated and he ascended to the Macedainian throne.  Alexander the Great was probably one of the most talented military leaders of all times.

    When Alexander came to age, he became King of Macedonia. Both he and his father were great lovers of Greek philosophy and he was taught by the philosopher, Aristotle. His love for Greek philosophy was great and in time, he conquered Greece and added another land to his empire. Soon, Alexander the Great had a vast empire consisting of of parts of three continents; Asia, Europe and Africa.

 

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