Doctors in ancient Greece pioneered anesthesia with natural remedies like mandrake, opium and henbane to ease pain during surgeries.

Euripides gained a reputation for writing unconventional characters and interpreting mythology in unique ways, both in the ancient world and in the modern reception of Greek tragedy. Sophocles ...

So, in ancient Greece, theatres were everywhere ... The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles, who won so many Greek theatre competitions that he became a big celebrity.

Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC ... His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who ...

‘What’s up, Kreon?” isn’t something you’d hear in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Antigone,” written in 440 B.C. But in Anne Carson’s 2015 translation, it’s part of the way she updates the language. It also ...

King Creon (Sterling Goodwin) threatens his son, Haemon (Devon Snyder), for challenging his edict regarding a deceased alleged traitor (the king’s nephew). This action escalates into even more ...