| A | B |
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| Thespis | ”first Greek tragedian to win the City Dionysia playwriting prize” |
| Aeschylus | ”Father of Greek tragedy and to some the greatest tragic poet of all time” |
| Sophocles | ”second great writer of Greek tragedies who was also a musician |
| Euripides | ”a Greek boxer and painter who questioned traditional religious ideas in his writing” |
| Aristophanes | ”the finest comic writer of ancient Greece” |
| Menander | ”made fun of domestic and private life in his Greek comedies” |
| Seneca | ”Roman dramatist who had gory details in his closet dramas” |
| Plautus | ”Roman comic writer who influenced Shakespeare and Moliere” |
