CORINTH (Corinto), ancient Corintia, modern Greece.
COORDINATES: 37º54’21.36’’N
// 22º52’38.26’’E
TIPOLOGY: Greco-roman
odeon.
DATE: Last
I A.D.
TRANSFORMATIONS:
It was restored by Herod Atticus in 175 A.D. Last III it was transformed
in arena
CAPACITY: 3.000
spectators.
CAVEA: Facing
north. 63 m. diameter. Maenianum: Ima
cavea with 13 rows of seats in 4 cunei;
Summa cavea with 13 rows of seat too in unknown cunei. Carved on slope, first steps carved on rock.
ORCHESTRA: 17,
2 m. diameter.
STAGE
BUILDING: Proscaenium 1,2
m. high. Pulpitum 26,7 x 8,2 m. Sacenae
frons 30,3 m. long, it was rectilinear. Aditus
maximi 2,8 m. wide.
LOCATION: Close
to the theatre, west of Apolo´s temple.
MY BEDSIDE
TABLE: 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: From Corinth´s ancient odeon you can see one of the
most mysterious and enigmatic places of antiquity, the Acrocorinth hill, the place
of the sacred whores.
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