Greek tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, romanized: tragōidía) is one of the three principal theatrical genres from Ancient Greece and Greek inhabited...

Tragedy (from the ‹See Tfd›Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that...

(tritagonist). Apparently, the Greek playwrights never used more than three actors based on what is known about Greek theatre. Tragedy and comedy were viewed...

A Greek Tragedy is a 1985 Belgian animated short film written and directed by Nicole Van Goethem about three lady statues holding on to the remains of...

"Greek Tragedy" is a song from indie rock band the Wombats. The track was released in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2015 as the lead single from the...

A Greek Tragedy is a form of theatre from Ancient Greece and Anatolia. Greek Tragedy may also refer to: Greek Tragedy (novel), a 1939 detective novel...

A Greek chorus (‹See Tfd›Greek: χορός, translit. chorós) in the context of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, is a homogeneous group of performers...

operas of Richard Wagner, in a rebirth of tragedy. In contrast to the typical Enlightenment view of ancient Greek culture as noble, simple, elegant and grandiose...

/ˈɛskɪləs/; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aischýlos; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge...

the very old oral traditions of Greek mythology. Euripides' Medea has remained the most frequently performed Greek tragedy through the 20th century. After...

 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom...

472 BC tragedy The Persians, written by the Greek playwright Aeschylus, to Querolus, an anonymous Roman comedy from late antiquity. Ancient Greek comedy...

In Greek mythology, Menelaus (/ˌmɛnəˈleɪ.əs/; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Μενέλαος Menelaos, 'wrath of the people', from Ancient Greek μένος (menos) 'vigor, rage...

The Greek genocide (Greek: Γενοκτονία των Ελλήνων, romanized: Genoktonía ton Ellínon), which included the Pontic genocide, was the systematic killing...

Greek Tragedy is a 1989 play by British playwright Mike Leigh, about the troubled relationship of a Greek couple Alex and Calliope. The play was originally...

of Greek tragedy in the preface to Samson Agonistes. His understanding of what would make an appropriate Christian tragedy combines aspects of Greek tragedy...

The comedy and tragedy masks are a pair of masks, one crying and one laughing, that have widely come to represent the performing arts. Originating in...

closely than the Greek tragedians had done. The philosopher Aristotle points out the ways in which tragedy differs from epic poetry: "Tragedy generally tries...

dramatists, Seneca based his tragedies on different Greek myths (such as Medea or Agamemnon). According to Vitruvius, Seneca's tragedies could be staged using...

observations about a character in Greek tragedy. The first is an abundant variety of types of characters in Greek tragedy. His second observation is that...

Lerna (Ancient Greek: Λερναῖα ὕδρα, romanized: Lernaîa Húdrā), more often known simply as the Hydra, is a serpentine lake monster in Greek mythology and...

conflict and conclude the drama. The device is associated mostly with Greek tragedy, although it also appeared in comedies. Aeschylus used the device in...

Plays': Theatre as Process in Greek Civic Life". In Easterling, P. E. (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Cambridge Companions to Literature...

Oedipal/castration model in relation to the mother-child links. Atossa, in the Greek tragedy The Persians, has been seen as struggling in her dreams with a Jocasta...

In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/prəˈmiːθiəs/; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought") is one of the Titans and a god...

Medea (Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides based on a myth. It was first performed in 431 BC as part...

(Ancient Greek: Πέρσαι, Persai, Latinised as Persae) is an ancient Greek tragedy written during the Classical period of Ancient Greece by the Greek tragedian...

Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy is a parody stage play of the 1987 film Fatal Attraction co-written by Alana McNair and Kate Wilkinson and directed...

Norwegian literati. Vandvik interpreted major works like "Greek tragedy" - a collection of tragedies and the "Iliad". He wrote in "nynorsk". He was instrumental...

The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon...