Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

BAFTA stands for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and is the most prestigious artistic award in the United ...

Lysistrata” chronicles the story of a young Greek woman weaponizing her sexual prowess for the greater good. What lessons can ...

Archaeologists have discovered a mask mold believed to depict Medusa at Valley of the Temples Archaeological Park in in ...

Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...

Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson, it's a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy ...

What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening ...

According to tradition, the first performance of tragedy ... behind a mask, were vitally important in an open air theater of maybe 20,000 people. Audiences expected the best and technical mistakes in ...

Late 19th-century electroplate replica of the Shrine for the Bell of St Patrick Noh Theatre Hannya mask (Lot 3: est €200 to €400) Gilt-bronze Bodhisattva from Mongolia (Lot 444: est €2,000 ...

Welcome to a hilarious journey back in time with Greece is the Word! Set in the sun-drenched world of ancient Greece, this comedy play offers a riotous twist on mythology, philosophy, and the ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...