Palaia Epidauros (Palaia Epidauros)

PALAIA EPIDAUROS (Palaia Epidauros), ancient Argolida, modern Greece.

COORDINATES: 37º38’00.07’’N // 23º09’36.62’’E

TIPOLOGY: Greek theatre. Urban.
DATE: Mid IV B.C.
TRANSFORMATIONS: Hellenic proscaenium. Roman transformations. Theatre was abandoned in IV A.D.
CAPACITY: 3.000 spectators.
CAVEA: Facing south-west. 55,6 m. diameter. Maenianum: Ima cavea with 18 rows of seats in 9 cunei. Probably had a summa cavea. The cavea is asymmetric, the wings are cut.
ORCHESTRA: 18,9 m. diameter. A little roman shrine preserved.
STAGE BUILDING: it was digged in 2008.
LOCATION: Palaia Epidauros ancient theatre is 14 klm. east from ancient Epidauros, inside a modern urbanization in Neo Epidauros village.
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: The theatre was dedicated to Dyonisos, the post is dedicated to him, of course it´s a pleasure stage for him that corner of the world. Mountain, the sea, a greek Amstel and readinh Elytis´Dignum Est.