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Greek Plays

Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound - Prometheus pays for defying the gods for the sake of mankind

Seven Against Thebes - After Antigone (a brief note)

Aristophanes
The Clouds - A send up of education

Plutus - A classic story about the redistribution of wealth

Thesmophoriazusae - Women Celebrating the Festival of the Thesmophoria

Euripides
The Bacchae - A frightening study of the beauty and horror of religious ecstasy

Sophocles
Antigone - The struggle between state and religion

Oedipus at Colonus - The follow up to Oedipus Rex and the predecessor of the story of Antigone

Oedipus Rex - He kills his father and marries his mother

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