For visitors to Athens, the ancient Odeon of Herod Atticus is the must-see theatre at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends have performed. And for the ...

Much like many figures in Greek mythology, Atalanta has two different origin stories. In the first, the mortal heroine is the ...

The Greek National Opera opened this season’s festival with Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot as Athens’ ancient theater hosts ...

One of Athens’ best-known tourist attractions is about to close for three years - Renowned artists who have performed here ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

Buddhism encountered a fascinating fusion with Greek culture in ancient times. Why did this Eastern religion adopt a Greek ...

Here are 11 of our favourite places in mainland Greece that make for brilliant alternatives to the islands this summer. Part ...

Here, I recently viewed the permanent collection of Ancient Greek pottery through a ... fertility and even theater. Google the painting by Caravaggio for an especially decadent interpretation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...