Oedipus the King

Aristotle’s key principles as found in Oedipus the King Drama was an important way to transmit culture, education, morality and religion during the Golden Age of Greek theatre, which lasted from about 500bc to 400bc. There were three main tragedians in Greece at this time. Aeschylus, also know as the father of tragedy, who added a second actor to the original style of the genre, while also reducing the size of the chorus. Sophocles …

…schools while religious teaching is kept at church. Entertainment today is seen more as a medium to escape from reality ironically even as movies become more realistic. Special effects of the dues ex machina have been replaced with computers. And even the most gruesome of scenes is portrayed to the fullest. Yet most of today’s basic principles for film plot characters, purpose, etc. stem from the classic Greek tragedy and Aristotle’s analytical poetics.