ANCIENT GREEK POETRY

Role of comic and tragic poets in Ancient Greece

Role of comic and tragic poets in Ancient Greece

Role of the comic poet in Ancient Greece

The two fundamental forms of literature in the ancient Greece were comedy and tragedy. Aristophanes is the best poet of his time. In ancient Greece comic poetry developed because of Aristophanes. The famous play 'The frogs' penned by Aristophanes marked the finality of tragic art in the ancient Greece. Aristophanes teaches the modern poets of today the art of buffoonery to disguise a political attack. The role of the ancient comic poet was to make people ...