Lato (Gulas)

LATO (Gulas), ancient Cyrenaica, modern Creta, Grece.

COORDINATES: 35º10’42.77’’N // 25º39’20.31’’E

TIPOLOGY: Theatron. Archaic cult Greek theatre. Urban

DATE: End IV B.C.

TRANSFORMATIONS:

CAPACITY: 180 spectators.

CAVEA: Facing South. Rectilinear. Theatron is 8 m. long. One maeniana with 10 rows of seats in 3 cunei. The structure has two missions, being a theatron and steps for reaching the upper city.

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LOCATION: Ancient Lato is 10 klm south-west from modern Aghios Nikolaos.

MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Nielsen, Inge. “Cultic theatre and ritual drama”. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, 2002. // Anti, Carlo. “Teatri greci arcaici”. Roma, L’Erma di Bretschneider, 1947. // Sear, Frank; “Roman theatres: an architectural study”. Oxford University Press, 2006. // Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”. Rome: SEAT, 1995.

OUT OF PRINT: Lato has two rectilinear theatron. These one is in the agora, looking to prytaneion, the other one is in the south.