The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles, who won so many Greek theatre competitions that he became a big celebrity. There were three types of plays – comedies, tragedies (which ...

The symbols they used were called hieroglyphs, which comes from a Greek word meaning ‘sacred ... The phonetic hieroglyph alphabet is the closest version to our modern English alphabet.

Part of the reason why Greek seems so intimidating may be the Greek alphabet itself, which can make newbies' heads swirl upon first glance. Never fear, though—many English terms, from astronomy ...