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orangecrush

(19,384 posts) Sun Feb 5, 2017, 12:44 AM Feb 2017

Greek Playwright Anticipates Trump

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Greek Playwright Anticipates Trump (Original Post) orangecrush Feb 2017 OP

I Have A BFA In Drama Minor In Art. The Greeks Were Really Ahead Of Their Time---- TheMastersNemesis Feb 2017 #1

Thank you for the interesting insight. orangecrush Feb 2017 #2

TheMastersNemesis

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1. I Have A BFA In Drama Minor In Art. The Greeks Were Really Ahead Of Their Time----

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Sun Feb 5, 2017, 01:17 AM

Feb 2017

by thousands of years. Greek drama was my professors favorites. And I had a chance to see him play and self direct Oedipus Rex right after I returned from Vietnam. It was done exactly the way he thought the Greeks would have done it. And it was probably the best play I have ever seen.

Too bad so many Greek plays were probably lost when a Catholic bishop destroyed the Library Of Alexandria. Sophocles was probably the best of the playwrights we have. Aeschylus and Euripides were prescient for their time as well.

Atomic theory was proposed as far back as 500 BC.

orangecrush

(19,384 posts)

2. Thank you for the interesting insight.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 5, 2017, 11:24 AM

Feb 2017

I underatand Sophocles wrote tragedies.

Shame we are now living in one.

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