3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Athenian tragic playwright who fought at Marathon and wrote the Oresteia — the only surviving complete Greek trilogy — whose work presents justice as the evolution from blood vengeance to civic law, under the guidance of Athena.
Athenian comic playwright who wrote The Clouds (satirizing Socrates as a dangerous sophist), The Birds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs — and whose famous speech in Plato's Symposium explains the origin of love through the myth of humans as originally doubled beings cut in half by Zeus.
Athenian tragic playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Electra — winning the City Dionysia festival 18 times — and whose work represents the peak of Greek tragic form: the individual destroyed by forces larger than themselves while revealing their essential character.