Both Sophocles and Euripides wrote plays about Antigone the one by Sophocles survives the one by Euripides survives only as a fragment. In his Medea, Euripides explores the choices that humans make under difficult situations. The last great tragedian, Euripides, questioned traditional values and the ultimate power of the gods. Of the scores of plays Sophocles wrote, only seven survive into modern times, and of these, the greatest one is Oedipus the King. Aeschylus, whose Oresteia trilogy examines the common tragic themes of vengeance and justice, brought tragedy to the level of serious literature. All three tragic playwrights drew their material from Greek myths and legends they each brought new developments to the art form. The early works focused on the good and evil that exists simultaneously in the world as well as the contradictory forces of human nature and the outside world. In the fifth century BC, Greek audiences enjoyed the works of four master playwrights of these, three- Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides-were tragedians. The art of drama developed in the ancient Greek city-state of Athens in the late sixth century BC From the religious chants honoring Dionysus arose the first tragedies, which centered on the gods and Greece's mythical past.
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