The battle of the Greek tragedies - Melanie Sirof 

”kills his father, and marries his mother. that sounds pretty tragic to me” *i'm dying*

This video was an absolute masterpiece. The combination of the eccentric narrative style of this video, it's great insights for the viewer who pays close attention to detail, as well as its top-notch humour, make this a truly remarkable video. As a person not too acquainted with the greatest playwrights, let alone the greatest Greek tragedians of classical Greece, this really made me feek a combination of hopeless ignorance and unquenchable curiosity that I cannot properly describe. Kudos.

Some of the Greek words heard in this video in Greek: Aeschylus: Αισχύλος Sophocles: Σοφοκλής Oedipus: Οιδίπους Jocasta: Ιοκάστη Thespis: Θέσπις chorus: χορός parodos: πάροδος

no idea what just happened ?? anyone can tell me what happened ?

This was absolutely genius. I was laughing throughout.

Beautiful!!!!!!

Adds one actor INNOVATION That just sounds like iPhone

lmao i dont get how people found this confusing

Hiiiiii

ok why didn't you guys put a warning before the videos starts? that this isn't a normal video. .. you didn't even explain what was going on... only people that know the subject and the way it was presented might get it. no me.

this was interesting and all around well done, but this is the least informative and able to follow lesson i've seen done by TED

What’s really tragic is not only did Oedipus Rex come in second at the contest but we also don’t even have copies of Philocles tragedies to compare it to in order to determine if it was a fair loss. In fact we don’t even know the name of the play Oedipus lost too, the passage of the sands of time has robbed us of even that.

"peace, love and catharsis" makes for an awesome catchphrase.

the ryan seacrest and mario lopez reference, i see you TED-Ed, i see you.

"Kills his father, and married his mother" Sweet Alabama sounds...

altough a fun variant on the original style of TED-ED. I prefer the normal narrator with cold hard facts over this story telling type of education. Still a great video

I have no idea why this is so confusing to people, I found this easy to follow and it just explains how different early Greek writers went about constructing their plays.

This is a really clever way of presenting information, I love it

What a coincidence! Iwas just analysing Antigone by Thucydidis for my exam tomorrow...

I liked this format. It was funny and entertaining, and I don't think it was as hard to follow as other people made it out to be

"peace, love and catharsis." WHAT

I appreciate TED-Ed's attention to the classics and the ancient world. Keep it up!

I prefer one man narrative...

I love how I know some of this. The Dionysus thing was cool. And the Greeks did *invent* tragedy. They knew the greatest heroes didn't get happy endings. Pretty sad, but what can you do? Greek tradegies and myths are awesome and twisted in a really odd way.

Just send me a message or give me a call to make the Greek voice and I'll add subs too. I cant hear that english narration

It definitely requires some background to understand what's going on, but come on, guys, this is great! Really, you have done amazing work. It's very entertaining and helps to renew the knowledge you had of ancient greek theatre. Even if you don't know a thing about it, the video is a super fun point to start introducing with it. Thank you so much!

“A nice fellow who kills his father and marries his mother.” And thus lay the seeds for an entire profession. Sometimes charging 200 dollars an hour....and a fifty minute hour at that. (1000 points to anyone who gets this reference.)

What about Euripides? It seems wrong to leave out one tragic ancient Greek playwright when there were only 3 with plays that still exist today.

Anyone else sent here by school

i got assigned from my teacher to watch this.. i like it! :D

i dont get it

this one needed more work guys, this episode was just all over the place.

Shout out to everyone who’s studying theatre arts!

So strange that the historical points discussed are lost in the slap stick.

Greek gang

I thought that the greek tragic by excellence was Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta

this was so great haha studying for my theater arts class and this was so helpful!

This is amazing! For someone who has read some ancient plays and has just a little bit (but enough) of knowledge about ancient drama plays, this is a masterpiece!

You assume people know the basis of theater origin ... difficult to follow

Seacrestopolis and Mario Lopedokia must’ve been huge hunks in Ancient Greece.

Sorry TED it seems you overestimated the thinking power of your audience. Looks like this whole thing went over a lot of people's heads.

"Peace , love and catharsis " Lol I'm dying 😂😂😂

For all our sakes, please stick to the conventional TED-Ed-style. The information gets lost in that "cool" wannabe-cartoon

Not a single mention of Euripides' contributions? O_o

καλοσ εστι ὁ βιοσ.

Mario Lopidochea does not sound particularly [ancient] Greek . Neither Christopoulos if this is the actual name.

Awesome! Would love to see more theatre-related videos, not just math and science.

brilliant brilliant brillaint

This is totally our lesson! Thanks for making it more entertaining.

the greek name's in english sound very od to me and im greek ,o, oh here's a new topic on TED-Ed why wen ever you hear a name you know in a difrent language sound od? to us its an idea :P

Theapus? Is that where the term thespian came from?

Secretosples and Mario Lopadocia sound like cool Greek guys. 🤣

Wow - this was absolutely underwhelming.

I actually enjoyed this

This was absolutely amazing.

i feel like im watching the hunger games😂 if you take a closer look the narrators even look like the ones from the hunger games🙈😬

Hold up, I'm trying to know which of them was Addison Anderson and George Zaidan, but I'm really confused HAHAHAHAHAHA

the box office lady was not waving; she was saying "STOP! GIVE ME YOUR TICKETS OR PAY !!!"

i came after watching the story reviewed by the ML studios crew (Malaysia)

I am not a literature student. Could you please tell me what does catharsis mean?

I'm not sure I follow what's happening. Is this video heavily dramatized or is this (somewhat accurately) how modern theatre begun..?

can't understand nothing :(

What? No Euripides?

These are way better!!! I wish they would do more like this and caesar and Lenin and ones like that:)

The messenger's explanation of the demise of Oedipus is not even in the slightest bit correct... Did they even read the ending of Oedipus?

such a informative and masterpiece scene... 10/10

I'd like to see a video about Aztec Gods or Aztec history in general.

where is euripides?

its amazing how we went from this , to Musicals like Wicked,Cats or Les miserables!!

briliant ! here only perspective , from where u are mater

I need a worksheet on this video! Perfect

Llol

I am in LOVE with the animation and presentation lmaooo

I keep imagining the con-attorney in the History vs. series whenever Seacrestopolis speaks.

i actually liked this kind of video hahaha

I liked it though. Good job. You never disappoint me

This was a lesson worth -sharing- explaining... :|

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The last one most tragic That's it I need to make a movie about that

good

Drama homework.

Only the one's who read the background stories of the greek drama can fully understand the video....

...Mario Lopedochea....Interesting character TED.

Mario Judah

Goat song!

Heard a little of Smash Bros. Melee in the song.

That's the problem with cougaring

im so happy that all of this is related to my english literature subject 💕

Well enacted. TED ED is now a studio!

😨😱🤢

peace, love and catharsis

Peace, love and kátharsis hahahaha

I absolutely love the bgm Wish I could have it

😮

who the guy with orange and black hair.

,,U can't blame the guy, can you?"

that was cool!

"Peace, love and catharsis" needs to be a thing

4:35 ...no, it makes me feel sad.

Esculusiss is the father of tradegy