| A | B |
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| Dionysus | Greek god of wine |
| comedy | humorous play about contemporary issues |
| tragedy | serious play based on Greek myths |
| Aristophanes | famous Greek comic playwright |
| Aeschylus | oldest of four major Greek dramatists |
| Sophocles | wrote Oedipus the King and Antigone |
| Euripides | wrote prize-winning tragedies, including Electra and Medea |
| Oresteia | trilogy by Aeschylus |
| trilogy | group of three related literary works |
| Oedipus | legendary ruler who unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother |
| Herodotus | wrote the history of the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars |
| Hippocrates | father of medicine |
