The largest temple of Ancient Greece was at the mercy of the masked men who caused riots after the peaceful gatherings for ...

guessed the 11-year-old.) He’s similarly nonplussed at Sounion, a few miles outside Athens, and site of Aegeus’s suicide when his son Theseus returned from slaying the minotaur but forgot to ...

Recently, more and more foreign authors have been turning to ancient Greece to get inspiration for their novels.

Indeed, Theseus’s Athens, where four aristocratic lovers and Bottom’s working-class cohort are mixed, matched and messed about by supernatural forces, is a kind of living archive of late 20th ...

SCENE 2: THE CITY OF ATHENS PUCK: Welcome to Athens! A city all in a flutter… Because in just four days, the noble Duke Theseus is marrying the warrior Queen Hippolyta. Most people are excited ...

“Fair lovers, you are fortunate indeed,” said Theseus the Duke, all grace and smiles; “come back with us to Athens and let’s be married all together in style!” So off they went to Athens ...

He is searching for his place to die. As he is near Athens, he seeks out Theseus, King of Athens, and asks him if he may be allowed to stay, die and be buried at Colonus. But Creon wants Oedipus ...

Theseus and Hippolyta find the lovers, and they all go back to Athens to marry: Demetrius and Helena, and Lysander and Hermia. Shakespeare isn't in there specifically, but some of the characters are.