A basic level guide to some of the best known and loved works of prose, poetry and drama from ancient Greece - The Acharnians by Aristophanes
Naked choruses, sexual fantasies, rubbish tip wastelands and nods to refugee camps … Athens’ Epidaurus festival is thrilling audiences – and thrusting theatre into the 21st century
Sku: EF6056Artist: Ben ShahnTitle: Spoleto FestivalYear: 1965Signed: NoMedium: Offset LithographPaper Size: 39.25 x 27.5 inches ( 99.695 x 69.85 cm )Image Size: 39.25 x 27.5 inches ( 99.695 x 69.85 cm )Edition Size: UnknownFramed: NoCondition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handlingAdditional Details: Festival held every July in its town of Spoleto, an ancient city in Italy. It is an annual celebration of music, dance, drama, and culture.
Calder Classics recently caught up with Simone Oppen and Anna Conser, directors of the Barnard Columbia Ancient Drama Group's Choephoroi , an ancient Greek tragedy written in the late sixth / early fifth century BCE. Read more about the challenges of staging a play entirely in an
Aphrodisias is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek and Roman periods in Turkey and is well worth the effort to visit!
Sophocles of Kolōnos (c. 496 - c. 406 BCE) was one of the most famous and celebrated writers of tragedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works, written throughout the 5th century BCE, include...
