Place of origin names where a genre was first written. Wikipedia records that "the first work to be labelled as Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto," a single English novel that gave an entire genre its name. This dimension shows which places have given the world their own genres of writing.
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Era of Emergence Ancient Rome
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1. Tragedy (Wikipedia)
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Originating in the theatre of ancient Greece 2500 years ago, where only a fraction of the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides survive, as well as many fragments from other poets, and the later Roman tragedies of Seneca.
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