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This approach is placed in the context of a visual tradition in the arts in Athens, notably in architecture, sculpture and painting, which reveals a sophisticated appreciation of space and line. A logical extension of this appreciation through other performance elements such as music and dance, suggests that the Greeks viewed tragedy as a synthesis of other means of perception rather than the extension of literature it was later to become.
In The Greek Sense of Theatre, J. Michael Walton proposes t

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