Trivia: The world’s oldest-surviving play is about what?
A mythological love story
A Persian battle
A Chinese emperor
An Egyptian god
The correct answer is A Persian battle
So why is this answer correct? : The oldest-surviving ancient Greek play is Aeschylus’ “The Persians,” which focuses on the defeat of the Persian king Xerxes’ navy at Salamis. The work is actually the middle play of a trilogy, but the other two parts have been lost to history. “The Persians” is one of only a very few Greek plays focused on contemporary events rather than ancient Greece’s colorful pantheon of gods.