From the grand stages of ancient Greece to the bustling theaters of today, the iconic comedy and drama masks have long symbolized the dual nature of theatrical storytelling. Whether you’re a Broadway ...

They performed before thousands and could become celebrities, yet actors in ancient Rome were stripped of their civic rights.

Under a third-century a.d. Roman fortress near the village of Ilısu in southeastern Turkey, archaeologist Erkan Atay and his team from the Mardin Museum recently uncovered two theater masks of a type ...

The Society, founded in 1910, is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interested in the study of Rome and the Roman Empire. Its scope is wide, covering Roman history, archaeology, ...

Drama was the ubiquitous speech-act spectacle of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, and as such, offers an unrivaled interdisciplinary lens into a wide variety of textual, visual, and kinesthetic ...