The Greeks took their entertainment very seriously and used theater as a way to investigate the world they lived in and what it meant to them to be human. There are three dramatic genres that they used; The Greeks used comedy, satirical dramas and the most important was tragedy. The first type was comedies, comedies consisted of men in power being satirized and mocked for their vanity and stupidity. The first master of comedy was the playwright Aristophanes. Later, Menander wrote plays about ordinary people and made plays that were more like sitcoms. Then there are the tragedies; the tragedy addressed the great themes of love, loss, pride, abuse of power and difficult relationships between men and gods. The point of a tragedy is when the main protagonist commits a terrible crime without realizing how foolish and arrogant he was. Then he slowly comes to terms with his mistake, the world begins to collapse around him. The three major playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aristotle had argued that tragedies purified the heart through pity and terror, eliminating petty cares and worries and making them aware that there could be nobility in suffering. He called this experience “catharsis.” Finally, satirical plays were short comedies that were performed between the acts of tragedies and poked fun at the plight of the characters in the tragedy. They are mythical figures and actors, half human and half goat