We know with certainty that the mask was an essential feature of theatrical performance in ancient Greece and Rome. We are frustrated by the paucity of evidence relating to why it was adopted and how ...

The excavations took place about 130 km from Rome in an area now predominantly ... Here is what the theater in the ancient ...

inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to immerse themselves in the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome and trace ...

Rome might not have built ancient history’s ... up by desert sands after the Roman Empire collapsed. It was barely disturbed for the next 1,500 years either, so the huge, column-lined forum, vast semi ...

Today, the city’s left bank, which served as the Roman settlement’s civic and administrative heart, is strewn with the remnants of ancient monuments: a theater, an amphitheater, baths ...

The catastrophic defeat and capture in 260 of Emperor Valerian by the Persians thrust Roman rule into even greater disarray. In Europe the rebel Gallic empire started to break away from Rome.

The Cadastre of Orange is an ancient plan that shows the Roman centuriations (land distributions) that extended across the ...

“It just ironically happened to be the year that I would then be doing theater ... filming in Rome allowed her to channel Audrey Hepburn’s on-screen Italian adventure in “Roman Holiday.” ...

Scott, Hollywood’s perpetual rolling stone even at age 86, may be preparing to unveil “Gladiator II,” one of his biggest ...

Christopher Hallett, Professor Emeritus, Departments of History of Art and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, University of ...

Festivals in the ancient world were religious occasions ... each god with several aspects. In the great Athenian theatre festival, the City Dionysia, the city honoured the god Dionysus under his cult ...

ROME — First Paris, now Rome and next Barcelona — Lily Collins is taking on two more European cities. As the star and ...