ACR Paragraph. Maria Pozniakova

Ancient Greek dramas can be a valuable source for political history of ancient polices and especially Athens – home of the most of the authors. Foremost, dramas (and especially tragedies) are very broad and relatively well preserved texts. When dealing with ancient history one can find such big sources quite rarely. That is why dramas can't be ignored in case of historical investigation. Of course, one can object by stating that most of the dramas described mythical events, or great deeds of the past, with no link to the modern times of the authors, thus, being of non use in deconstruction of the historical reality. Yet, that's only the first sight. Deeper textual analysis shows, that dramas contained multiple allusions to real events which took place at that time. They did reflect inner political tendencies, social changes or international events, though not in the form of direct narration, but camouflaged into mythological characters or ancient heroes. Therefore, knowing that fact and possessing methodology to uncover those hidden links to actual history, makes ancient dramas irreplaceable historical source for scholars researching history of ancient polices.