We’ve told this story for 2,500 years: how Hadestown playfully brings alive an ancient Greek myth
Based on a myth first told in Greece over 2,500 years ago, Hadestown, now playing in Sydney, is a modern retelling of the ...
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The Wit and Wisdom of Ancient Greek Comedy and Its Influence on Modern Theater
Discover how satire, humor, and societal critique shaped Western theater in this insightful overview of the ancient Greek comedy.
Dang’s oral folklore to hit international stage at NSD
Vadodara: In a moment of pride for the tribal community, the story of Kansari, the revered deity of food grains worshipped ...
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1st Century BCE Medusa Mask Mold Reveals Insights into Roman Sicily’s Cultural and Economic Practices
Archaeologists in Finziade, Sicily, have uncovered a 1st century BCE mold used to create masks of Medusa, shedding light on ...
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Archaeologists In Sicily Just Unearthed A Plaster Mold Used To Make Medusa Masks 2,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily were recently exploring the remains of the ancient Greek colony Finziade when they came ...
PATRICK MARMION reviews Elektra at the Duke of York's theatre: The REAL tragedy is this Hollywood star's assault on West End
Led by Oscar-winning Hollywood starlet Brie Larson, it's a snarling, punk travesty of Sophocles' ancient Greek tragedy ...
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Archaeologists Uncover Roman Mask Mold Depicting Medusa, Say It Was Used as a Protective Charm
Archaeologists Uncover Roman Mask Mold Depicting Medusa, Say It Was Used as a Protective Charm The archaeological site of ...
PATRICK MARMION reviews Oedipus at the Old Vic Theatre: King Malek upstaged by Greek chorus of dancers
What oracle could have predicted that Freddie Mercury and Oedipus Rex might cross paths? Yet that’s exactly what’s happening ...
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Booing Started in Ancient Greece
is in fact a mark of the seriousness with which ancient Greeks took these performances. For example, the precision and accuracy of the actor’s voice, emerging from behind a mask, were vitally ...
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The oldest evidence for lead pollution comes from ancient Greece
WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...
Archaeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Mask Mould Believed to Depict Medusa
The artifact emerged from the ruins of an ancient Roman building-turned-workshop in Sicily from the second or first century BCE.