Theater had become a way to unite the warring factions of ancient Greece — the very same divisions that would undo democracy in Athens after Sparta ... Festival at the Theatre of Dionysus ...

Sparta, in the south ... there wasn't just a theatre here, there was a stadium, a running track, a gymnasium, and an odeon, which is the ancient Greek word for a music hall. And at first, you ...

The statue was found at Sparta’s sanctuary of Athena Chalkioikos, a temple of special significance to Spartan soldiers. Alamy/ACI In the same vein, various ancient philosophers and orators ...

The earliest origins of drama are to be found in Athens where ancient hymns, called dithyrambs, were sung in honor of the god Dionysus. These hymns were later adapted for choral processions in ...

Celebrating the cunning victory of the ancient ... Theatre. With the theme “The Trojan Horse,” the tableau was faithful to lore of old … with some plot twists. Just as the king of Sparta ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Thebes had been ... They first saw action in the spring of 378 B.C., when Sparta tried to seize the farmlands around Thebes. Seeing the Spartan army coming like ...