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| | Ancient Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | He soon had imitators, and in 534 BC a contest in tragedy was instituted at an Athenian festival held in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and revelry. |
 | | His seven surviving plays, three of which constitute the only extant trilogy, the Oresteia (458 BC), are richly ambiguous inquiries into the paradoxical relationship between man and the cosmos, in which men are made answerable for their acts, yet recognize that these acts are determined by the gods. |
 | | With the defeat of Athens by Sparta in 404 BC, Old Comedy disappeared; the new authorities would not permit the pointed satire and licentiousness that was at its core. |
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