COORDINATES:
37º03’27.27’’N //
14º53’40.77’’E
TIPOLOGY: Greek
theatre. Urban.
DATE: Late
III B.C.
TRANSFORMATIONS:
Roman stage and orchestra.
CAPACITY: 700
spectators.
CAVEA: Facing
north. 37,5 m. diameter. Semicircular cavea.
Only one maeniana with 15 rows of
seats in 9 cunei.
ORCHESTRA: 19,2
m. diameter, paved in limestone in Roman times.
STAGE
BUILDING: Pulpitum is
13,7 x 2,6 m. Roman stage 1,2 m. high, with curved niches. Evidence of thyromata.
LOCATION: The
theatre is next to the bouleuterion.
Ancient Akrai is west of Palazzolo Acreide, 50 klm. west from Syracuse.
MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Mitens, Karina; “Teatri
greci e teatri inspirati all’architecttura greca in Sicilia e nell’Italia
Meridionale c. 350-50 a .C.”.
Roma, L’Erma di
Bretschneider, 1988 // Tosi, Giovana; “Gli
edificio per spettacoli nell’Italia romana”. Roma, Quasar,
2003. // 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.
“Where are my bay-leaves?
Come, Thestylis; where are my love-charms?
Come crown me the bowl with the crimson flower o’ wool”
-Theocritus of Syracuse-
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