Aristotle established the first principles of dramatic criticism in his classic work Poetics, and his definition of tragedy shapes any literary analysis of tragic drama as it appears in classical Greek texts. Aristotle considered Sophocles the perfect writer and his Oedipus the King the perfect tragedy because the development of the plot conforms to the Aristotelian rules of tragedy—the most important of which are the unities of time, place, and action. However, of the three, only the unity of action can be applied to drama in general; the other two relate specifically to tragic drama of the classical period as it was performed on the Greek stage. According to Aristotle, the construction of dramatic tragedy demands the supremacy of the action over the characters. As such, in an ideal tragedy, the protagonist's moral character is revealed to the audience only through a series of causative events that unfold as fate takes its course.

Select the sentence that supports the argument that classical Greek tragedy was distinct from other forms of drama.

A) Sentence One ("Aristotle established the first...")
B) Sentence Two ("Aristotle considered Sophocles...")
C) Sentence Three ("However, of the three...")
D) Sentence Four ("According to Aristotle...")
E) Sentence Five ("As such, in an ideal tragedy...")