The play was produced in 406 B.C, and was written in the fifth century B.C. ... He produced 123 plays, but only seven survive today. ... The structure includes a prologue, parodos, dialogue, choral odes, and exodos. ... The structure of play starts with prologue or opening scene, the paradox or first of the chorus's lyric songs or choral odes, a regular alternation of scenes in dialogue and choral odes and the exodus or concluding scene. ... These parts include the prologue, the parodos, dialogue, choral odes, and exodus. ...

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They created plays that are still considered among the greatest works of art in theater. ... Ordinarily, each actor would play many different roles, and to divide the speaking parts in a tragedy up by determining which characters were in the same scene. ... Sophocles, Aristotle was a philosopher that later on had very good ideas to put in plays. ... The archaeological evidence suggests that between 460 and 431 BCE (and probably at the time the Odeion was built) the orchestra was shifted north and west of its original position, and the hillside excavated further to make a more secu...

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Myths always played an important role in human societies. ... Music could play a similar role, communicating situations and emotions by sounds and harmony. ... Spectators were seated on a hillside to view these early "plays". ... The choral odes, accompanied by dancing and music, were part of the entertainment itself. ... The earliest surviving texts of plays are seven tragedies by Aeschylus dating from the first half of the 5th century BC. ...

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