Puppetry was practiced in ancient Greece and the oldest written records of puppetry can be found in the works of Herodotus and Xenophon, dating from the 5th century BC. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The Greek word translated as "puppet" is "νευρόσπαστος" (nevrospastos), which literally means "drawn by strings, string-pulling", [ 3 ] from "νεῦρον" (nevron), meaning either "sinew, tendon, muscle, string", or "wire", [ 4 ] and "σπάω" (spaō), meaning...