People in number mistake death for threat. Actually not so, death is a kind of challenge. It is the challenge that everyone has to meet. Nobody can avoid death's challenge. It is the most important thing that how to response the challenge pithily and effectively. Therefore, the crucial significance of death motif is how to response the death's challenge with human dignity when people meet the challenge.The text start discussing the relationship between death and birth of Greek tragedy, put emphasis on death behave and its hiding philosophic contemplation ethic connotation and social animadversion ,and reveal the Greek tragic spirit declared in death of tragic character in Greek tragedies.The text analyzes the relationship between death and birth of Greek tragedy philosophic contemplation, ethic connotation and social animadversion reflected in death motif and Greek tragic spirit. What's more, reappear the wholly new value-ideal of thespian death endowed by Achaean in classical time. This is that people should not live only for living, but devotes himself to kindness and fairness, defense love, dignity and nobleness, even though life is the most precious. If one die for the ideal, his death can illuminate the wholly meaning of his existence. |