Perched on a hillside on Lefkada, an island off the west coast of Greece ... that construction on the theater began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic ...

Masks were integral to ancient Greek theater. In vase paintings, theater scenes often depict actors wearing masks that ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

The International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama returns this summer with impressive, contemporary renditions of ...

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Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Greeks had style! Their red and black pottery was very famous. They were great builders too. The Greeks built ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii ... followers of Dionysus — who is also the ancient Greek god of fertility, theater and religious ecstasy — as both dancers ...

Recent decades have advanced our understanding of numerous aspects of ancient Greek and Roman drama: the physical space of the theater ... Gonzalez (Harvard): The Isolated Mask: Pentheus as “Art ...

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 ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen ... the Greek god of wine and theater. There were also animal ...