The Hellenistic period was a veritable cauldron of ambition, betrayal, and sheer bloodlust. It was an era marked by dramatic ...

Ancient Greek myths have continuously inspired both classical and modern writers, leading them to produce brilliant classic ...

The texts in question are Ino, a revenge tragedy of which 37 lines were discovered ... were Euripidean through an online database of ancient Greek texts, Trnka-Amrhein looped in her colleague ...

Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons The tragedy of Pallas’s death at the hands of Turnus ... Credit: Public domain / ...

So, in ancient Greece, theatres were everywhere ... Judges gave prizes for their favourite tragedy and comedy performances. The Pythian Games were held in Delphi for the god Apollo.

Although Homer's Iliad and Odyssey belonged to an earlier tradition of oral storytelling, they greatly influenced Greek ...

A bust of slave and story-teller Aesop (620 - 560 BC), who lived in ancient Greece and is known for ... who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of ...

Greece -- A valuable ancient vase gifted more than 70 years ago by the Greek government to an Italian prime minister has been voluntarily returned to Greece by the former statesman's grandson. The ...

Sailors, exiles, merchants and philosophers: how the ancient Greeks played with language to express a seaborne imagination ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

Oscar-winning actor Brie Larson will make her West End debut with a revival of Sophocles' play 'Elektra' from 'Oklahoma!' director Daniel Fish.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” represents a return to fun for Tim Burton and Michael Keaton, Dan Webster says in his review.