The ancient Greek civilization lasted about 650 years (800 BC-65438 BC+046 BC), and it was the most important and direct source of western civilization. The recorded literature, science, technology and art in the west all started from ancient Greece.
Ancient Greece is not a concept of a country, but a title of a region. Ancient Greece is located in the southeast of Europe and the northeast of the Mediterranean, including the islands and archipelagos of the Greek Peninsula, Aegean Sea and Ionian Sea, the southwest coast of Turkey, the east coast of Italy and the east coast of Sicily.
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In the second half of the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great of Macedonia conquered the whole of Greece, and spread the Greek civilization to the East in the process of imperial expansion, which is called the Hellenistic Age.
At this time, the ancient Greek literature was drawing to a close, and the center of Greek civilization gradually shifted from Athens to Alexandria, Egypt. The characteristics of Greek literature in this period are divorced from reality, attaching importance to rhetoric and pursuing sentimental sentiment. The more successful areas are new comedies and pastoral poems.
Compared with the "old comedies" in the aristophanes era, the so-called new comedies are characterized by not talking about politics and avoiding serious topics, but showing more social customs and pleasing the audience with tortuous plots and elegant styles. Minand (342~ 292 BC) was a pioneer and representative of the new comedy in ancient Greece, and * * * wrote 105 comedy.
Many of his works are completely handed down from generation to generation, including The World Hater and Samos Woman. Meinander's comedies often have a complicated love background, paying special attention to the characterization of the characters in the plays, which deeply influenced the English playwrights in the17th century.