Did Easter come from an ancient Greek festival? Scholars have long linked the customs involved in this celebration with pagan ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch ... The city put on a drama festival called the Dionysia in honour of the ...

The researchers have also estimated that construction on the theater began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity. “Although damaged by time ...

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 Greek Ministry of Culture has announced that archaeologists have fully uncovered the ancient Greek theater of Lefkada, the first such monument ever discovered in Greece’s Ionian islands.

With their new production of the epic Hellas, theatergoers will have the opportunity to experience performance as it was done in Ancient Greece: an all-day affair filled with spectacle, masks, period ...

The earliest origins of drama are to be found in Athens where ancient hymns ... One of these, the 'City Dionysia', a festival of entertainment held in honor of the god Dionysus, featured ...

A groundbreaking archaeological find in Lefkada, Greece, has unveiled the first-ever ancient Greek theater discovered in the Ionian Islands. This monumental discovery, years in the making ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...