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Greek theatre began in the 6th century BCE in Athens with the performance of tragedy plays at religious festivals. These, in turn, inspired the genre of Greek comedy plays. The two types of Greek drama would be hugely popular and performances...

Ancient Greek comedy was a popular and influential form of theatre performed across ancient Greece from the 6th century BCE. The most famous playwrights of the genre were Aristophanes and Menander and their works and those of their contemporaries...

Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress, painting by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1783. This painting was criticized for depicting a queen in informal attire. Hesse House Foundation, collection of the prince Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein, Wolfsgarten...

A portrait of Elizabeth Howard, Lady Southwell (c.1564 – 1646), an English Elizabethan lady wearing a farthingale dress with its distinctive protruding waist created by a padded roll and inserted wooden hoops. By an unknown artist c. 1600...

Gold dress fastener from Clones, Co. Monaghan, Ireland, Late Bronze Age, c. 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

A representation of a Seneca woman in traditional dress from the 1904 edition of League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (l. 1818-1881).

Cheyenne beaded hide dress c. 1920. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

Arapaho dress made from tanned leather, silk ribbon, and glass beads, c. 1940. Joe Grandee Collection, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City.

A representation of a Seneca man in traditional dress, illustration from 1904 edition of League of the Ho-dé-no-sau-nee or Iroquois by Lewis Henry Morgan (l. 1818-1881).

Greek mythology was used as a means to explain the environment in which humankind lived, the natural phenomena they witnessed and the passing of time through the days, months, and seasons. Greek myths were also intricately connected to religion...