In a small valley in the Peloponnesus, the shrine of Asklepios, the god of medicine, developed out of a much earlier cult of Apollo (Maleatas), during the 6th century BC at the latest, as the official ...

Tour guides may tell you that a pin dropping can be heard in every seat of the ancient theatre of Epidaurus – but scientists disagree It has been held up as a stunning example of ancient Greek sound ...

EPIDAURUS, Greece -- Lights! Crickets. Birds. Bats. Action! The ancient theater of Epidaurus, renowned for its acoustics, has reopened for a limited number of open-air performances, with organizers ...

With a recent land, aerial and underwater topographic mapping of ancient Epidaurus conducted by Greece's Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities and China's Xinhua News Agency, more light was shed to the ...

Live concerts and events have been mostly cancelled in Greece this summer due to the coronavirus pandemic. But the Culture Ministry allowed the Epidaurus Theater in southern Greece and the Odeon of ...