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| -534 BC |
| | | Thespis, traditionally considered the first actor, wins the drama competition in Athens | |
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| -484 BC |
| | | Aeschylus wins the prize for tragedy at the City Dionysia in Athens | |
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| -468 BC |
| | | Sophocles wins the prize for tragedy in Athens, defeating Aeschylus in the competition | |
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| -454 BC |
| | | Euripides enters the drama contest at the City Dionysia in Athens for the first time | |
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| -423 BC |
| | | Socrates is now sufficiently prominent to be satirized in Clouds, a comedy by Aristophanes | |
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| c. -425 BC |
| | | Aristophanes wins first prize in Athens for his comedy The Acharnians | |
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| c. -340 BC |
| | | The theatre at Epidaurus is the earliest and best surviving example of a classical Greek stage and auditorium | |
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| c. -185 BC |
| | | Plautus and Terence, in the second and third century BC, create a Roman drama based on Greek originals | |
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| c. 1170 |
| | | The first known mystery play, the Mystery of Adam, takes place outside a church somewhere in France | |
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| c. 1250 |
| | | Tannhäuser is one of the Minnesinger, the German equivalents of the French troubadours | |
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