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 ...

Built on the site of a natural amphitheater in the hills above campus, with funds donated by William Randolph Hearst, the Greek Theatre was the first building designed by campus architect John Galen ...

For its next production, Theatre TJC is going Greek with “Antigone,” a new play by TJC theatre professor and director Denise Weatherly-Green, based on Sophocles’ original work, written around 441 ...

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 ...

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 first plays were performed in the Theatre of Dionysus ... is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays. His pupil, Sophocles went on to add a third actor, while Euripides added both a prologue ...