Through this course, students acquire valuable knowledge in the significance of ancient rituals in relationship with the ancient Greek drama, in scenography, costume and theatre architecture and the performing contexts of ancient Greek theatre. Moreover, visiting some of these ancient Greek theatres sites in Argolis, as part of the course, will enhance the theoretical knowledge students will acquire in the course and allow them to practice the terminology of the ancient Greek theatre. Students will also learn the basics of foundational ancient dramatic texts and approach aspects of the reception of ancient Greek drama in later dramaturgy, cinema and performance, evaluating the cultural processes shaping the relation between sources and receiving text. Finally, they will also be made aware of ancient dramas a unique and diachronically influential cultural formation also by focusing on its rich theoretical reception by way of reading modern emblematic interpretations of selected tragedies by representative thinkers coming from different disciplines, such as, psychoanalysis, anthropology, philosophy, critical theory and Hellenic studies.