His play 'The Persians', first performed in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays ... The first plays were performed in the Theatre of Dionysus, built in the shadow of the Acropolis ...

Following a decade of excavation efforts, archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient Greek amphitheater—the first of ...

Archaeologists uncover Lefkada’s ancient Greek theatre — the first found in the Ionian Islands — offering a rare glimpse into ...

History buffs will want to visit this ancient Greek theater, overlooking the Ionian Sea. Built in the third century B.C., the theater could hold thousands of people attending ancient Greek ...

The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles, who won so many Greek theatre competitions that he became a big celebrity. There were three types of plays – comedies, tragedies (which ...