GREECE - 1959 June 20: An 20 lepta black, fawn and grey postage stamp depicting Audience, Vase 580 BC. Ancient Greek theatre was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. The city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political, and religious place during this period, was its centre, where the theatre was institutionalised as part of a festival called the Dionysia, which honoured the god Dionysus. Tragedy (late 500 BC), comedy (490 BC), and the satyr play were the three dramatic genres to emerge there

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Greece is located in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, bordering on the Ionian, Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. Capital — Athens. In 1923 the reigning king was forced to abdicate and the following year Greece was declared a republic. In 1935, the king was recalled by a “plebiscite” of the people. Greece became a republic in June 1973. The country today includes the Aegean Islands of Chios, Mytilene (Lesbos), Samos, Icaria (Nicaria) and Lemnos, the Ionian Islands (Corfu, etc.) Crete, Macedonia, Western Thrace and part of Eastern Thrace, the Mount Athos District, Epirus and the Dodecanese Islands. 100 Lepta = 1 Drachma. 100 Cents = 1 Euro (2002). This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image

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Size: 3600px × 5600px
Location: Greece
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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