Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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428 THEATRE OF MARCELLUS. Korinthian pilasters—an arrangement which (but for the addi-tional fourth story, here wanting) resembled that found in theColiseum (compare Fig. 439). Fig. 434, after Caninas design,shows the cross-section of the interior, containing 30,000seats. We there see the form of the substructure with thestairs and passages, also the corridors, already described in thetheatre of Pompeius, which surround the cavea and open into thearcades, also mentioned in the above. The rows of seats of thecavea rise in beautiful proportions from the orchestra and the lowpodium ; they are divided into two parts by a praecinctio, tallyingin this respect, and also as regards the cunei, with the precepts
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Fig. 435. of Yitruvius. The upper end is finished off by a colonnade, whichalso contains places for the spectators, and which is mentioned byYitruvius amongst the necessary requirements of a Roman theatre. The roof of the arcade, he says (chap. VII.), ought to corre-spond with the height of the skene, because in that case the voicespreads simultaneously to the upper ranks and the roof; whileif the two differ in height the voice is broken by the first lowerpoint it encounters. On the roof of the arcade the ropeswere fastened, by means of which a canvas could be stretched THEATRE OF HER ODES ATTICUS. over the cavea, so as to protect the spectators from the sun(see § 85). About the stage itself little was known till the discovery ofthe theatre of Aspendos in Pamphylia ; the closer investigation ofthe Roman theatre at Orange, in the south of France, has alsoyielded interesting results as to this important portion of theantique theatre (see Lohdes work, Die Skene der Alten).Besides these

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