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The Bacchae tells the story of the young and angry god Dionysus. Dionysus comes to Thebes to vindicate his mother Semele of the royal house of Cadmus whose family believes ...

Aeschylus' play The Libation Bearers is the second play in The Oresteia. It takes place after Agamemnon and before The Eumenides. Agamemnon's son Orestes returns with his friend Pylades ...

The play Medea begins with Jason abandoning his wife Medea and daughters in order to marry Creon's daughter Glauce.

The ancient Greek playwrights Sophocles and Euripides both wrote plays titled Electra Play about Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon.

Athens is the capital of Greece, located on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. The city of Athens has been inhabited for over 4000 years and during its growth ...

Theater itself is a convoluted term and can mean a great many things, especially in the modern age. Theater can refer to the tradition of putting on a play, actors ...

One of the best ways to improve your historical knowledge (and your knowledge of the Western World) is to know how to learn about Ancient Greece. The Greeks gave us ...

American novelist Erich Segal is most remembered for authoring the novel and screenplay Love Story, but spent most of his life as a classics professor, teaching at Yale University, Harvard ...