The connection to ancient Greece and Rome runs deep...............................not just the Italian renaissance..........of course, it is both.....................Italy, via the world UNESCO (Sp?) archaeology sites.............has the most of any single country.............and the 3 types of Roman columns are present throughout Wash DC....................Ionian, Cor., etc....................of course, in Western learning, in general, it is based on Greek and Roman learning........................in biology.............genus adn species...........like us...........presently homo sapiens sapiens..............the scientific names are in Latin............and although not presently, but the mark of an educated person in the West traditionally was his, b/c of sexism, ability to speak, read and write Latin and Greek,,,,,,,,,,,,i have a friend from Haiti, whose father served on the Haitian supreme court...........was a lawyer by trade, became a judge, etc...........he told me his father could actually speak both Latin and Greek................



There his most celebrated roles included Shakespeare's Richard III and Sophocles's Oedipus. In the 1950s Olivier was an independent actor-manager, but his stage career was in the doldrums until he joined the avant garde English Stage Company in 1957 to play the title role in The Entertainer, a part he later played on film. From 1963 to 1973 he was the founding director of Britain's National Theatre, running a resident company that included many future stars. His own parts there included the title role in Othello (1964) and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1970).