In winter, when the days are shorter and the land seems to sleep, ancient Athenian women prepared for one of the most secret ...

Dia dos Namorados is also commemorated in June because February conflicts with Brazil's epic Carnival, which is observed that ...

Greek gods or just human: Stephen Fry draws parallels at Jaipur Literature Festival ...

At Jaipur Lit Fest, a panel featuring Stephen Fry explores why The Odyssey still matters today. Much like India's great epics, the Greek classic emerges as a story of exile, endurance, and return — ...

By. The history of theatre is in a lot of ways a history of ritual. They are practices equally bound by their devotion to performance, community, and transformation; ...

Archaeologists in Sicily found a unique writing implement featuring a grumpy-faced god and his erect penis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

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This aerial view captures the historic Theater of Dionysus nestled on the southern slope of the Acropolis in Athens. The semicircular arrangement of stone seating unfolds in perfect symmetry around ...

A marble sarcophagus dating to the second or third century a.d. has been discovered in the city of Caesarea on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. It depicts the wine god Dionysus and the hero Hercules ...

Here we are and 2026 is underway. So what will be your rock and metal festival or cruise experiences this year? The year is just getting started, but the festival and cruise announcements are coming ...

Breeding snowdrops is a long process. It takes four years to grow a flowering plant from seed, and up to another eight to ...

One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to fill with honored guests. They had come from across Greece and the Balkans to attend ...