Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...

Performed for the very first time in 458 BC, the trilogy was awarded the top honor at the festival of Dionysia and has ...

This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its earliest ...

FIU Theatre is taking viewers to ancient Greece in its upcoming production of "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes. The comedic tale follows a woman, Lysistrata, who seeks to end the Peloponnesian War between ...

PLATTSBURGH — Adirondack Regional Theatre presents “The Iliad, the Odyssey and all of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less” Sept. 15-17 in the Community Room at the YMCA on the Oval in Plattsburgh.

Archaeologists have discovered a tomb in Pompeii containing one of the site’s best-preserved skeletons to date—and the partially mummified remains offer fascinating insight into the previously unknown ...

For more than 60 years, students of Greek drama have turned to the University of Chicago Press’s “The Complete Greek Tragedies.” Now, like Sparta challenging Athens, two classics scholars are setting ...

In 2006, the Atlanta chapter of Lykeion ton Ellinidon (Lyceum Club of Greek Women) partnered with the Georgia Tech Hellenic Society for a screening of the Greek film “A Touch of Spice” at Garden Hills ...

FEW persons were present at the first performance of the King Œdipus at Sanders Theatre who did not feel before the play was out that the occasion was of no trivial significance. Most of the audience ...