The Ancient Greeks took their entertainment very seriously and used drama as a way of investigating the world they lived in, and what it meant to be human. The three genres of drama were comedy ...

His play 'The Persians', first performed in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays ... The first plays were performed in the Theatre of Dionysus, built in the shadow of the Acropolis ...

Surely not a recipe; but as often happens, the Greek language surprises us once again. In fact, the... One of the most enduring art forms from ancient Greece is that of theater. Greek tragedies and ...

So began a period that was later called "Middle Comedy," covering a long, murky half-century for which no ancient comic drama is preserved whole or even close to complete. While it is possible to ...

From these lists not only emerge many names of Greek playwrights and choregoi who would otherwise have passed from memory entirely, but these inscriptions also shed light on the evolution of theatre ...

Illustration of a Theater performance in ancient Greece Orestes, Ghost of Clytemnestra awakening the Furies, Greek Play Vintage engraving from the story of Orestes, Ghost of Clytemnestra awakening the ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks ...

History buffs will want to visit this ancient Greek theater, overlooking the Ionian Sea. Built in the third century B.C., the theater could hold thousands of people attending ancient Greek ...

Theater Studies play ‘The Fury’ links themes from classical theater to current events “The Fury” weaves together ancient myth with recent and current events in an exploration of women’s anger, a ...