1-Author of the play”trojan women”,a great greek tragedy
2-Trojan women is a work which tells about the conquest of Aegian island by Athens.
3-Trojan women is written in 415 BC.
4-It depicts the deeds of 4 trojan women in the trojan war.
5-In 441 BC ,euripides won prize at the DIONYSIA,a famouse Athenian dramatical festival.
6-Euripides wrote a satire play called CYCLOPS.
7-Dionysia was a large religious festival in ancient Athens held in the honour of God DIONYSIUS.
8-Trojan women was produced during peloponnician war.
9-Peloponicain war was a war between Athens and Sparta(peloponician league),in which sparta became victorious.
10-Thucydides wrote a work called “peloponnician war”.
11-Thucydides is considered as the father of scientific historical writing and first economic historian.
12-Herodotus is the father of history, father of Lies,father of ethenography and father of comparative anthropology.
13-Cecero called herodotus as the father of history.
14-It was herodotus who first time called Egypt as the Gift of nile.
16-HISTORIA describes the battle between greek and persia in 490 AD.
17-It also describe the first attempt of persians under Darious I to capture GREECE.
18-This battle is inspiration for the Marathone race of modern olympics starts in 1896 from athens.
19-The race is to commemorate the legend of a greek messenger running to athens with the news of the victory of greeks against persians.
20-Mother of history or Muse of history is CLIO.
21-Trojan war was waged against city of troy by the greeks after “paris”of troy stolen “helen”from her husband menelaus,the king of sparta.
22-Trojan horse was a strategy that allowed the greeks to finally enter the city of troy(after 10 years siege) during trojan war.
23-Trojan war is vividly narrated in illiad and odyssy of greek poet Homer.
24-Illiad is relates a part of the last years of the siege of troy.
25-Oyssey describes the journey home of odysseus,the greeks leader in the trojan war.
26-Aeschylus ,a great greek writer had participated in the marathon battle between greeks and persians.
27-Aeschylus is called father or founder of tragedy.
28-He wrote books like The Persians and Prometheus Bound.
29-Sophocles was another greek tragedian.
30-he wrote the work Electra , Antigone ,OEDIPUS THE KING.
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