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Theater thrived, with tragedies and comedies performed in large amphitheaters. Renowned playwrights such as Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes wrote dramas that remain influential today. Sports ...

Jacques Offenbach was born on June 20, 1819, in Cologne. He was the second son and seventh of ten children of Isaac Yehuda Eberst, later Offenbach, a bookbinder, an itinerant cantor who sang in ...

I quoted the motion put forward in the Scottish Parliament on March 18 by Clare Adamson, SNP MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, to the ...

The Greek goddess of the night is also the first principal voice in the opening chorus of Aristophanes’ The Birds ... Roman authors mentioned cult practices and wrote hymns in her honor. Ovid wrote in ...

“If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.” - Kurt Vonnegut Fellow literature nerds will know that just by naming this piece “Why I Write,” I ...

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