The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles, who won so many Greek theatre competitions that he became a big celebrity. There were three types of plays – comedies, tragedies (which ...

Find out what ancient Greek theatre was like and learn about different ancient Greek festivals and art. How did the ancient Greeks change the world? What did the ancient Greeks do for us?

That's because early restorers, most notoriously a Greek engineer named Nikaloas Balanos who led restorations from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, put column drums and whole blocks back in the ...