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Arion at Corinth creates the idea of a chorus.
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Cleisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, transfers the idea of choruses to Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility.
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Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens founded a festival called "City of Dionysia" in Athens, which paid homage to the Greek god Dionysus. During this festival, which took place during spring) men used to perform songs to welcome Dionysus. Plays were only presented at City Dionysia festival. This festival took place during the spring.
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A man named Thespis, a Dionysian priest, stepped out of the chorus and took on the role of an actor. Thespis acted out a Dionysiac myth through spoken dialogue rather than a song, creating Greek tragedy. He is considered to be the first actor and the first playwright.
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Aeschylus, the first playwright for tragedy, is born. Aeschylus wrote many tragedies in Greek theatre
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The popularity of tragedy plays lead Pisistratus, an Athenian tyrant, to construct a theater for the performance of tragedy, in Dionysus' honor. Under Pisistratus' rule, tragedy turned into a competition for the best play. The first recorded festival of Dionysus was instituted. The first recorded victory at the Dionysian Festival occurred that same year when Thespis, also a playwright, won the event
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Seven against Thebes Agamemnon Eumenides
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Sophocles, another main tragedy playwright was born. Sophocles wrote many great Greek tragedies such as Ajax (445 BC) Antigone (441 BC), and Oedipus the King (429 BC). Also during his lifetime, he introduced the third actor on stage.
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Aristophanes, a major comedy playwright was born. Aristophanes wrote the plays The Acharmians (425 BC), The Birds (414 BC) and the ever famous Lysistrata (411 BC) 5th Century, BC 4th Century, BC megan & jessica 380 B.C. Greek tragedies and comedies are critiqued by the philosopher Plato in Plato's Republic.
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Aristotle, another Greek philosopher defends Greek tragedies and comedies in his Poetics.
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Euripides, one of the major tragedy writers, was born. Euripedes wrote many plays throughout his career. Some of the include: Medea (431 BC), Helen (412 BC) and Orestes (408 BC).
