what is a greek tragedy?

Question

in plain simple enlgish please.
and just the basics, i dont need to know in details. only a paragraph about it

OKAY NOW I NEED MORE DETAILS

Answer 1

They were plays that involved the pathos (feelings) associated with people facing serious problems and dealing with them in by searching for serious solutions. (Death was some times a solution - thus our modern day meaning for "trajedy")

Other Greek plays were rather whimsical and they were called "comedies". -- not necessarily funny, but sometimes, most of the time, ironic humor, or satirical humor.

Answer 2

Greek tragedy contains seven components: plot, characters, a chorus, thought, diction, music, and spectacle. Of these plot is the most important. According to Aristotle, "the plot is the soul of tragedy." Plot is communicated to the audience primarily by means of words.

The Philosopher Aristotle in his work mentioned above (The Poetics) gave the following definition in ancient Greek to the word "tragedy" (τραγωδία):

- Tragedy is an imitation of an action that is admirable, complete, and possesses magnitude; in language made pleasurable, each of its species separated in different parts; performed by actors, not through narration; effecting through pity and fear the purification of such emotions.

hope that helped

Answer 3

Greek tragedy contains seven components: plot, characters, a chorus, thought, diction, music, and spectacle. Of these plot is the most important. According to Aristotle, "the plot is the soul of tragedy." Plot is communicated to the audience primarily by means of words.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

You mean, what does the expression mean? Not trying to be funny, but a Greek tragedy literally is a play, written by an ancient Greek, that is sad.

Normally when people use the expression "Greek Tragedy", I believe that they are referring to the plot of "Oedipius Rex".

Simply put, Oedipius unknowingly killed his father and slept with his mother.

A "Greek Tragedy" is a messed-up family or a bad suituation.

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...In an effort to discover the murderer, Oedipus sends for the blind seer, Tiresias. Under protest the prophet names Oedipus himself as the criminal. Oedipus, outraged at the accusation, denounces it as a plot of Creon to gain the throne. Jocasta appears just in time to avoid a battle between the two men. Seers, she assures Oedipus, are not infallible. In proof, she cites the old prophecy that her son should kill his father and have children by his mother. She prevented its fulfillment, she confesses, by abandoning their infant son in the mountains. As for Laius, he had been killed by robbers years later at the junction of three roads on the route to Delphi.

This information makes Oedipus uneasy. He recalls having killed a man answering Laius' description at this very spot when he was fleeing from his home in Corinth to avoid fulfillment of a similar prophecy...

Answer 5

Nana Mouskouri

Answer 6

greek tragedies always have a hero that gets hurt... similar to troy... and achilles tendon... achilees was so strong yet his weakness was so simple... it also deals alot with irony..
so anything with a hero or heroin that has a downfall....

gl...

Answer 7

When you order a greek kebab and find out it's turkish

Answer 8

When you go to Greece on holiday and find that the food and drink is dearer than you were led to believe.

Answer 9

Simple a soggy gyro that isn't puffy enough with no filling in it.