The Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece, is widely regarded as the birthplace of theater and dramatic arts. Built beneath the iconic Acropolis, this ancient amphitheater hosted the first ...

In 86 BC, Roman General Sulla unleashed a brutal siege on ancient Athens, permanently transforming the sovereign state into a museum city.

The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...

Nathan Arrington, an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, sometimes visits the cemetery near campus to think. He is an expert on another burial ground, thousands of ...

THE Athens of the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ, which may properly enough be called the Periclean Athens, has been an extinct community for more than two thousand years, and yet it is more ...

In the Greek capital, ancient history is everywhere you look. But these days, the city is also home to boundary-pushing art. A passerby might have mistaken it for a wedding feast. In Metaxourgio, a ...

Virtual reality has the power to transport viewers to places as hostile as the Red Planet and as sophisticated as a fine arts museum. Now, VR users can tour parts of ancient Athens like it appeared ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks also ...

Something unexpected happened in the summer of 2021. Suddenly, out of nowhere — and from locations near and far — everyone seemed to be heading for Athens. And why not? Whether by necessity or ...