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 ...

Ancient Roman entertainment was more than just bloody gladiator games! Learn about the Roman sports and Roman theater that ...

Thorikos, located north of the ancient mining town of Lavrio in Greece, is an archaeological site which houses the world's ...

In this book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theater to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theater was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities ...

Built on the site of a natural amphitheater in the hills above campus, with funds donated by William Randolph Hearst, the Greek Theatre ... The 7,200-seat open-air theater has been host to numerous ...

Students have gotten in touch with the tragic side of the dramatic arts while putting on an updated production of "Antigone." ...

(Giuseppe Cavaleri) Going to the theater was an essential part of ancient Greek civic and religious life. Plays such as the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides, the comedies of Aristophanes and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles, who won so many Greek theatre competitions that he became a big celebrity. There were three types of plays – comedies, tragedies (which ...