in 6 lectures you will learn how Greek comedy works, why it is good to scold people, who paid for productions, why comediographers were not afraid to mock politicians, why Aristophanes made fun of his friend Socrates, how Greek tragedy works and why one should not cry at a tragedy. And also about theater as a teaching of democracy, about the main Greek tragedy, what really happened to King Oedipus, and why the writing of Sophocles did not please the Athenians very much.