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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

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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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