Within Ancient Greek culture, the sacred rites of Dionysus have been appropriated and transformed to theatre performances. The shaman became the actor, the participants became the audience, the sacred altar became the stage. From myth as a ritual performance emerged the theatre of tragedy, in ...
Greek tragedy, created in the city-state of Athens in the last thirty years of the sixth century B.C.E., is the earliest kind of European drama. Its subject matter is normally drawn from mythology, except that for the ancient Greeks "mythology" was a kind of historical saga, often ...
For most of Antiquity, theart of ancient Persiawas closely intertwined with that of its neighbours, especially Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), and influenced - and was influenced by - Greek art. Early Persian works of portable art feature the intricate ceramics from Susa and Persepolis (c.3000...
ATHENS, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens' impressive ancient theatre under the Acropolis, came alive with the youthful voices and the passionate performance of Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra (SEYO) this week. On Tuesday evening 421 students of 27 nationalities, aged from...
MORON really does mean an idiot, in ancient Greek! It comes from the word μωρός which means someone whole can't understand that much, and in contemporary Greek is the word μωρό which means baby. So basically a moron is someone that has the mind of a baby. ...