Ten Facts about Ancient Greece and its writers (Part 1):
1) The three periods of Ancient Greece are Archaic, classical and hellenistic period.
2) The three famous tragedians of Ancient Greek are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
3) The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliants, and the trilogy Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides) are the famous works of Aeschylus.
4) Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus are the famous works for Sophocles.
5) Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae, Alcestis and The Trojan Women are the famous works of Euripides.
6) The Old comedy was introduced by Aristophanes in 5th century BC.
7) The New comedy was introduced by Menander in 4th century BC.
8) Plato belonged to the school called 'The Academy' or 'The Platonian Academy' which was founded by himself in 387 BC.
9) Aristotle belonged to a school called 'The Lyceum' which was founded in 335 BC.
10) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Protagoras, Thales of Miletus, Heraclitus, Anaximander and Epicurus are some of the great philosophers in the Ancient Greece.
"Knowledge is love and light and vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next".
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