All of the above playwrights influenced the writing of Arthur Miller. Miller was inspired by Greek tragedy, particularly the works of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, incorporating their themes and storytelling techniques into his own plays to explore timeless and universal truths about the human condition.
Hesiod - a farmer and philosopher author late 8th Century BCE. Homer - a bard who reduced the bardic stories to writing late 8th Century BCE. Aeschylus - a poet who wrote plays 5th Century BCE. Sophocles - a poet who wrote plays after Aeschylus 5th Century BCE.
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian who is known for his plays, including "Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone." He was a prominent playwright in Athens during the 5th century BC and is considered one of the three great Greek tragedians along with Aeschylus and Euripides.
Greek playwrights like Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes were writing plays over 1800 years before Shakespeare was born. The Greek actor/playwright Thespis is credited with being the first actor and the first playwright around 535 BCE (BC).
Thespis is considered the first tragic dramatist as well as the first actor in Western/European tradition. Following him were Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Agathon, in ancient Greece; Seneca in Rome; Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare in Elizabethan England; Racine in Neoclassical France, Anton Chekhov in late 19th / early 20th Century Russia, and Eugene O'Neill in 20th Century America. Sometimes Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Bertolt Brecht, and Samuel Beckett are added to the list.
Aristophanes wrote comedies, not tragedies. The three greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece whose work survives were Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
No, Euripides (c. 480 B.C.E. - c. 406 B.C.E.) wrote the tragedy "Alcestis."Specifically, Sophocles (c. 496 B.C.E. - c. 406 B.C.E.) was Euripides' contemporary. At the time, Thebes and Troy were popular topics for plays. So Sophocles is known for authorship of three plays about Theban King Oedipus: "Oedipus Rex," "Oedipus at Colonus" and "Antigone." In contrast, Euripides is known for writing plays about women whose lives are affected by the coming, carrying out and losing of the Trojan War.
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Greek Tragedies
Sean Harris and J.K. Rowlings parents influenced her into writing books.
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her life
There are a number of ways that a person's life experience may have influenced their writing. They may have put personal emotion into the piece for example.