Taking a look at Greek theatre.

* Greek tragedy came about in the time period of 530 - 550 BC in Athens. It mainly became                   popularised from 700 BC onward. A man named Thespis was the first ever recorded actor to               perform on a stage .

* At the height of Greek theatre in ancient Greece, many believed in gods and Goddesses. A festival     called Dionysia was established in honour of Greek god Dionysus; in which performances of               tragedies commended. After 487 BC , comedies began being performed.
   It's the second most important festival after Panathenaia.

* Examples of certain playwrites at the time were ;
- Sophocles (497-450 BC)

He was second of the three tragedians whose work has survived over time. According to the 10th century Encyclopedia, He'd written over 123 plays in his time alive, But only 7 survived in a completed form. For example; he wrote Oedipus (409 BC), Antigone (442 BC).

- Euripides (480 BC)

19 of the 72 works he produced are safe (18 Tragedies and 1 drama)
a few of his notable works are ; Hecuba (424) and Andromache (427 - 416)

*Certain Greek dramas had a recurring theme of investigating the world they lived in and what it          meant to be human. The three genres of drama were; Comedy, Satyr and importantly Tragedy.
  Comedy mocked men in power for their Vanity and Foolishness.
  Much later he made comedies out of ordinary people and they became more like sitcoms.
  Tragedy took on big themes of love, loss, pride, abuse of power and the fraught of relationships          between men and Gods. Typically the main protagonist commits a crime without realising he has        done so due to his arrogance. This is know as the characters Hamartia as a result of the character's      Hubris.

* The themes were socially relevant, Typically in one of Euripides' plays. What you tend to see acted     out on stage is living life abiding by the social norm, which hinders you from giving into desires         which are inhumane or unconquerable.

* The themes present in Talthibias is the abuse of power. Talthibius is telling Hecuba that her and           many other  women that they are to be taken prisoner and serve many masters, including one that       has deceased. He seems to take great pride in telling her because he sees the women as objects.