greek plays:
The Greeks loved entertainment and one of their favorite forms of entertainment was drama. The three main genres of drama they focused on were comedy, satire plays, and tragedy. Aristophanes was the main write of the comedies that were performed. The comedy plays were derived form imitation, they often mocked the vanity of men or political satire. The most popular was tragedy. Tragedy dealt with love, loos, pride, power, the abuse of power, and the infamous relationships between men and the gods. The satire plays were short and were played between the scenes of the tragedy plays and were meant to be comedic.
Sources:
http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Theatre/
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/24c.html
Sources:
http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Theatre/
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/background/24c.html
indian epics:
The epic poem of Ramayana was originally told orally even though it consisted of over 24,000 verses. But because of this the teller of the poem would add and delete portions of the story and it would also be told in different languages causing some things would change due to the dialect, but even with all that the main points of the story stay constant, correct behavior by living one's dharma. The Ramayana is a code of moral behavior and the lessons are put forth by the moral issues the character faces in the story.
The other main sanskrit great epic poem is Mahabharata. This epic is an important source of history and a text about dharma, and it is composed of almost 100,000 couplets. Mahabharata shows the evolution of Hinduism and its relations with other religions.
Sources:
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/lessons-indian-epics-following-dharma
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/357806/Mahabharata
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/lessons-indian-epics-following-dharma
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/357806/Mahabharata