COORDENATES:
37º53’36.65’’N //
21º22’32.33’’E
TIPOLOGY: Greek
theatre. Urban.
DATE: First
half IV B.C.
TRANSFORMATIONS:
CAPACITY: 8.000
spectators.
CAVEA: Facing
north-west. 104 m. diameter. Cavea
exceeds semicircle. Built on natural slope. Rows of earth terraces in steps,
divided into 7 cunei; later stones
steps placed on top of ramps. Paradoi remains
well preserved.
ORCHESTRA: 21
m. diameter.
STAGE BUILDING:
Proscaenium supported
by Ionic columns. Stage was 22x2,8 m.
The scene building was 22 m. long but with wings at sides, ramps, 46 m.
LOCATION: Ancient
theatre is north of agora, close to Dionysos 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. // Mee, Christopher; Spawforth, Anthony; “Greece. Oxford archeological guides”. Oxford University Press, 2001. // Arias,
Paolo Enrico; “Il teatro greco fuori di
Atene”. Firenze, G.C. Sansoni, 1934.
OUT OF PRINT: When I visited
Elis ancient theatre there were scholars and archeologists working on it... it
was like a group of Childs making a castle in the sand... that seems to be Elis
one, a theatre of sand.
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