Dramas Performed in Ancient Greece

1. In Ancient Greece, dramas were performed as a form of art, just like plays in our society today. Dramas back then would focus on leadership, justice, and duties owed to the gods. There were two types of drama in Ancient Greece. A tragedy is one type. Tragedies were serious dramas about common themes such as love, hate, war, or betrayal. There were usually main characters and tragic heroes. The tragic hero had what is called a "tragic flaw". This is what causes the downfall of this hero. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were great authors of tragedies in Ancient Greece. The other type of drama is called a comedy. Comedies contained scenes slapstick situation and crude humor. In comedies, politics and respected people/ideas were usually made fun of. A playwright named Aristophanes wrote the first great comedies for the stage like The Birds and Lysistrata.
2. (b) An Ancient Greek comedy has similarities to the movie Home Alone. For starters, they both  colorful costumes/sets. They do this to show setting of the story and to put emphasis on important details. Another similarity is that they both used slapstick situations and crude humor. In the movie, an 8 year old boy travels to New York by himself, using his father's money to stay at a hotel, and builds traps for two burglars which not only make it entertaining, but comical, just as an Ancient Greek comedy.
3. This is an image of an Ancient Greek theater. Theaters were built on hills so that you would could see the view from beyond that point. They were open-air as shown in this picture. This means that there was no roof; it was not a building, The theaters were called theatrons and had people performing at the very bottom (on the circular platform). As we can see, the theater seems to be made out of stone and the seats are wrapped around the performing area. It kinda reminds me of John Carroll's football field steps, but curved (without the metal benches).