CROSS-CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND THEATRICAL CREATION: Theatre is a complex cross-cultural phenomenon, long before this specific notion was established and became a reference system and methodology for approaching and interpreting modern social, artistic, and pedagogical data.

Starting from the creative consciousness of the author and the dramatic text, it becomes clear that theatre, as a literary genre, constitutes a composition of diverse, sometimes disparate elements, that originate from the same or possibly different cultural traditions, but together form an organized semantic environment with exceptional dynamism.

The ancient tragedy is historically the first (and thus archetypal) example of such an approach. Works such as the 'Persians' and 'Medea', as well as 'Iphigenia in Tauris' and 'Helen', portray characters, situations, and behaviors that transcend the conceptual and existential framework of ancient Greek worldview, with its philosophical, theological, and cosmological references, and compose a unity comprised of components from other cultures, anthropological, ethnic, and cultural data.

Nevertheless, these specific works are inseparable and well-structured compositions, within which 'familiar' and 'unfamiliar' are presented unconditionally, fully integrated into the tradition of the indigenous and the authenticity of Greek particularity.

But the same is true for texts such as 'Oedipus Tyrannus' and 'Prometheus Bound', the Bacchae and the 'Eumenides', where earlier elements from an archaic, even prehistoric, oral tradition creatively converge and form unique compositions, which in turn serve as paradigms for later creations that are directly or indirectly related to them.