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Hey /lit/, are there any classical Greek plays that don't have gods as characters? I don't very much into classical literature hurr, sorry.

What's the situation? Is there, like, a work that's known for not involving gods? Or is there a whole olympless genre that I'm not aware of? I understand that if a play ended and there were no god-related effects, the audience would silently walk to the stage and violate the actors so that won't ever happen again, but then, my understanding is limited.

>> No.2706905

you are a fucking retard.

>> No.2706914

>>2706905
What? Why?

I have no idea how anything in my post could elicit such a reaction. Did you mispost? Are you feeling well?

>> No.2706919

Fuck you.

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>> No.2706921

Lysistrata.

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>> No.2706935

Check out the frogs by aristophanes.

>> No.2706938

>>2706935

come to think of it clouds as well doesn't have any gods as CHARACTERS but the influence is still there as its about defying a goddess kinda

>> No.2706940

Athens really invented secular theatre and several of their playwrights are some of the best to ever live, but most of them use or invoke the gods/myth as a matter of course. Usually not as deus ex machina, though. You really shouldn't let that stop you from reading them. It's almost amazing how brilliant they are.

>> No.2706943

Just read Aristophanes' Comedies. Make sure to get the old, literal translation that's properly vulgar, like it's supposed to be.

>> No.2707272

Plays are the lowest form of literature.
Hell, most are boring even when actually performed, but are at least somewhat entertaining.

>> No.2707284

The Theban Plays by Sophocles. Also, read some Plautus.

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>>2707272

>he actually thinks this

>> No.2707288

>>2707272
>Plays are the lowest form of literature.
LOL
go back to reading your novels at the kids' table, dear--the adults are talking

>> No.2707291

>>2707272
Shakespeare was the best writer in English ever and he was a playwright.

>> No.2707293

>>2707291

>implying not Milton

Though I do agree that the guy you are quoting is a retard.

>> No.2707295

>>2707293
Yeah OK. I think Paradise Lost is the best thing ever written in English but I'd say that, looking at a writer in terms of their entire corpus, Shakespeare's the 'best' writer in English.

>> No.2707312

Poetry
Essays/letter writing
Prose
Plays

Truth

>> No.2707358

>>2707312
Well at least you got poetry right.

It goes like this:
Poetry
Drama
Prose

Essays and letters are apart from the hierarchy because everybody should read them anyway.

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>>2707272
I think a certain William would like to have a word with you.

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>>2707381
Good choice of image. My favourite.