Melos (Milo)

MELOS (Milo), ancient Achaea, modern Ciclades, Greece.

COORDNATES: 36º44'15.82" N // 24º25'16.09 E
TIPOLOGY : Greek theatre. Urban.

DATE:  III or II B.C.

TRANSFORMATIONS: Shows signs of Roman phase, II A.D. , orchestra and stage building.

CAPACITY: 2.500 ¿? espectators.

CAVEA: Bill against slope. Facing south. Maenianum unknow although Ima cavea has 7 cunei and 9 rows of seats still survives. Four seats shows inscriptions in which you can read that the seats were reserved for some categories of citizens.

ORCHESTRA: 27 m. diameter.

STAGE BUILDING: Some elements of roman scaenae frons survives.

LOCATION: 1 klm. From modern Milos, in the road to Klima´s port.

BEDSIDE TABLE: Sear, Frank; “Roman theatres: an architectural study”. Oxford University Press, 2006. // Lange, Judith; Bosnakis, Dimitris; “Ancient theatres”. Athens, Itanos, 1996.

OUT OF PRINT: The theatre was discovered in 1814, it is close to the place where the famous Venus of Milo was found. Milo is a Ciclades island, a very pacefull place for a rest, with a lot of magic places where the time seems to have stoped, like Sarakiniko´s lunar scenary or Thiorixeia´s red beach with his sulphur mine, a spontaneous industrial art cementery.