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 ...

Euripides explains the importance of Greek drama and how the first theatre was cut into the cliff below the Acropolis in the centre of Athens. He describes how theatres were designed with tiered ...

The Ancient Greeks took their entertainment very seriously and used drama as a way of investigating ... Tragedy: Tragedy dealt with the big themes of love, loss, pride, the abuse of power and ...