Ancient Greek Theatre and Drama on the WWW

There are many web sites offering helpful information and illustrations relating to ancient theatre and drama. Explore on your own, but you are required to visit these sites:

The Perseus Project <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/startingPoints.html> (Tufts University) includes a massive database of classical texts (in Greek and in translation), photos, diagrams, articles, etc. The left column on the start page, offers several options. Use the Encyclopedia to look up people, places, and terms. Follow links from Art and Archaeology to Architecture to Types to Theatres to access illustrations of ancient theatres. Explore several ancient sites, but in particular Athens, Theater of Dionysos and Epidauros, Theater. At TOD at Athens read the article and views these images in particular: 1990.30.143 and 1990.30.0142 (to get a sense of the theatre in relation to the Acropolis and the Acropolis in relation to the city). At the Epidauros (the best preserved of the ancient theatres), view, in particular: 199030.0031 and 1990.30.0030, and look at the first "Remote image" (click on the image to expand it) to get a sense of the audience's view of the stage in relation to nature.

Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today, an online journal, offers an excellent "Introduction to Greek Stagecraft" <http://didaskalia.berkeley.edu/stagecraft/greek.html>, with some useful links.

Theatron, a British company developing electronic study materials for theatre, has some VR images of the Theatre of Dionysus at <http://www.theatron.co.uk/athens.htm>. Theatron developed the "Staging Classical Tragedy" video, hosted by Prof. Richard Beacham, who teaches at the University of Warwick, founded Theatron, and is on the editorial board of Didaskalia.

Dr. Janice Siegel <http://nimbus.temple.edu/~jsiegel/index.html>, of Temple University, has developed several image and texts sites pertaining to the classical world; note, particularly, her "llustrated Lectures" on Greek theatre and Greek drama (take her link to Walter Englert's page at <http://homer.reed.edu/staging.html>) and her "Illustrated Site" of Athens, South Slope (of the Acropolis).