In addition to the primary celebration of the City Dionysia, in the mid-5th C bce, Athens added a separate festival of theater focusing on _________________.Group of answer choicesthe ideas of the philosopherscomediesfurther exploration of past tragediesthe work of first-time playwrightsNext

Write an elaborate note on the Greek pessimism and the festival of Dionysus.

Euripides was writing plays during the _____________________________.Group of answer choicesPeloponnesian warsrise of democracy in Athensthe reign of SolonPersian War

A significant difference between the plays and epic poems of the ancient Greeks, was that the plays  inspired a _______________________.Group of answer choicesmore interactive audiencenew political systemdeeper reverence for the art formnew form of religious belief

One issue causing the decline in Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE was______________.Group of answer choicesThe tyranny of Philip of MacedonThe alliance between Athens and SpartaThe invasion of the PersiansThe onset of a plague

One of the most famous modern scholars to use Greek plays as a resource in his field was ________________.Group of answer choicesSigmund FreudAllistair McGoniesAristotleBronislaw Malinowski