Costumes, lighting, chorus-music, and so many other features of theatre that we’ve come to enjoy today can all be traced back to Ancient Greece, and more specifically to the city-state of Athens. The Greeks can be credited with a large amount of the things we study in school today such as theatre, science, philosophy, and several other studies. However, the time when theatre became especially prevalent in Greece has a special name, the “Golden Age” of Greece (Wilson, Goldfarb 211). The Golden Age refers to a time in Greece where their cultural influence was at an all-time high, as evidenced by how much we study it in every class you
