Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in the proper order. Choose the correct combination among the four alternatives given.

1. Exactly how the theatre came into being is not known. B. Yet it is impossible to state with certainty what the theatre was like. C. Legend attributes the invention of the dithyramb, the lyrical ancestor of tragedy, to the poet Arion of Lesbos in the 7^th or 6^th century BCE. D. But, it is indisputable that the traditions born in ancient Athens have dominated Western theatre and the theories of Western drama up to the present. E. It was obscure even a few years before the appearance of Aeschylus’s earliest extant play, Persians (472 BCE).
2. But it was not until the creation of the Great Dionysia in Athens in 534 that tragic drama established itself.