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 ...

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The genesis of theater, like most everything in ancient Greece, was under the auspices ... became a moment of art imitating life. “They escaped the war, and their journey became a physical ...

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 ...

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

Like Bulgari itself, whose founder was born in Greece and then moved to Rome to establish the company, Taormina and its Ancient Theater fuse both these cultures and civilizations (some of the ...

Travel back a couple thousands of centuries earlier to ancient ... of Greek theater was on the decline. A more conservative social and political period elicited a widespread change to the art ...

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 ...

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 ...