The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks ...

The ancient mystery of the great sound quality at the ancient Greek theater of Epidaurus has finally been solved, researchers ...

Doerries believes that ancient stories can be an antidote to ... They they commit to the extreme emotions of Greek tragedy. And in so doing, they basically move the walls of the room back and ...

Greek tragedy had arisen in the moral environment of the ancient polis with its strong sense of individual responsibility and agency, and moral situations simply did not have the same urgency when ...