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Ancient Greek theatre in Delos The theatron was the seating area, built into a hill to create a natural viewing space. The first seats in Greek theatres (other than just sitting on the ground) were wooden, but around 499 BC, the practice of inlaying stone blocks into the side of the hill to create permanent, stable seating became more common.
Ancient Greek theatre in Delos. This is a list of ancient Greek theatres by location. Attica and Athens. Theatre of Dionysus, Athens;
Odeon or Odeum (Ancient Greek: ᾨδεῖον, Ōideion, lit. "singing place") is the name for several ancient Greek and Roman buildings built for musical activities such as singing, musical shows, and poetry competitions. Odeons were smaller than Greek and Roman theatres. [clarification needed]
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Ancient Greek comedy (Ancient Greek: κωμῳδία, romanized: kōmōidía) was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy.
Ancient Greeks once crowded into a theater in Pleurona, seating themselves on stone slabs and awaiting on-stage entertainment. The outdoor theater, carved into a hillside and overlooking a lagoon ...
Pages in category "Ancient Greek theatres" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Ancient theatre of Taormina; Theatre of Thorikos
The Theatre of Dionysus [1] (or Theatre of Dionysos, Greek: Θέατρο του Διονύσου) is an ancient Greek theatre in Athens. It is built on the south slope of the Acropolis hill, originally part of the sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus (Dionysus the Liberator [ 2 ] ).