Before the year 479 BCE, most of the innovations from the Greeks were art in its most common form and in the mathematics and sciences. Examples of this are Pythagoras in 525; he developed a throm about right triangles. It wasn't until aproxiamtely 458 Bce that the first tragedy was created. Drama had existed before this , but in other forms. What we consider drama first began simply as a chorus of singers, usually singing in dactyllic hexameter ( verse in which 6 segments of 3 syllabless, the first syllable of each segment stressed and leaving the last two unstressed), which is the same verse in which the Homeric poems are written in. later, in 534 BCE, Thespis revolutionized theatre by seperating a person from the chorus to talk and sing to. They would sing to hon
As you can see, the wars surrounding the Ancient Greeks brought out many effects and prolific playwrights, along with excellence in other fields.
1. Kitto, H.D.F. The Greeks. London: Penguin Paperbacks, 1991
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