Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #57: Ancient Greek Playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides Aeschylus (524 BC-456 BC), Sophocles (495 BC-406 BC) and Euripides (480 BC-406 BC) were three tragedians / playwrights of ancient Greece. The Greeks, and these three individuals in particular, invented drama as we know it and, consequently, impacted literature across the centuries. Greek drama dealt with themes still relevant today. It probed such issues as the nature of good and evil, the rights of the individual, the nature of divine forces, and the nature of humans. In other words, the three playwrights took abstract universal ideas, themes and conflicts and brought them into concrete reality using plot and actors. The result is drama that not only entertains, but provides vivid lessons that communicate how to live and view the world. Go to #58: Michelangelo Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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