yes the Greeks had plays they also had poetry, literacy, and more...Greeks plays were held at cerant places
Edit: Yes, the Greeks did have plays. Tons, actually. A common theme in many of these place was some sort of tragedy. Western theatre was born in Athens, Greece between 600 and 200 BC, created by the Athenians. The tragedy often represented in these Greek plays weren't the sole result of someone's artistic ability, but moreso the result of what was going on in Greece during the time. They were also often designed to show the rights and wrongs in life.
Some examples of Greek playwrights and their plays:
By Aeschylus -
Agamemnon
The Choephori
Eumenides
The Persians
Prometheus Bound
The Seven Against Thebes
The Suppliants
By Euripides -
Alcestis
Andromache
The Bacchantes
The Cyclops
Electra
Hecuba
Helen
Medea
The Trojan Women
By Sophocles -
Ajax
Antigone
Electra
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus the King
Philoctetes
The Trachiniae
By Aristophanes -
The Archarnians
The Birds
The Clouds
The Ecclesiazusae
The Frogs
The Knights
Peace
Plutus
The Wasps
The Thesmophoriazusae
Most of the famous ones are. But There were also comedies, the best-known writer was Aristofanes: Aristophanes (c. 446-388 BCE), a leading source for Greek Old Comedy * The Acharnians (425 BCE) * The Knights (424 BCE) * The Clouds (423 BCE) * The Wasps (422 BCE) * Peace (421 BCE) * The Birds (414 BCE) * Lysistrata (411 BCE) * Thesmophoriazusae (c. 411 BCE) * The Frogs (405 BCE) * Assemblywomen (c. 392 BCE) * Plutus (388 BCE)
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He doesnt have a tragic flaw. Read aristotles view of tragedy in "Aristotles poetics" and you can see that there is no such thing as a tragic flaw. It is a simple miss-judgment of the character in which he can change, but may choose not too.
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Tragedies and Dramatic Comedies
No, he wrote comedies and histories as well.
Tragic heros and their flaws in which lead to their demise.
In Greek drama, every play was either a tragedy or a comedy. In Elizabethan drama, even tragic plays had comic relief.
No, his play more tragic and full with suspension.
first tragic then satyr which is a mix of tragic and comedy and then plain comedy
The tragic flaw is the human frailty or weakness in the hero.
The most famous of all Greek plays were Drama and Satire/comedies. The most famous of Greek playwrights was Homer and Socrates.
hamartia
μοίρα (meera)
Greek mythology was made into plays of all kinds. Comedy,Dramaetc
Elizabethan tragedies were modeled on classical Greek and Roman tragedies, such as those by Seneca. These plays often featured themes of fate, revenge, and the downfall of a tragic hero. Shakespeare was heavily influenced by these classical works when writing his own tragedies.
Euripides