MEGALOPOLIS (Megalopoli), ancient
Arkadia, modern Greece.
COORDENATES: 37º24´36.52’’N
// 22º07’37.76’’E
TIPOLOGY: Greek
theatre. Urban.
DATE: IV
B.C.
TRANSFORMATIONS: Late
Roman stage.
CAPACITY: 17.000
spectators.
CAVEA: Facing
north. 131 m. diameter. Built against hillside. Maenianum: Ima cavea, 9
rows survives but it has 20 in 9 cunei Media
cavea with 20 rows in 9 cunei too.
Summa cavea with 15 rows of seats divided
in 16 cunei.
ORCHESTRA: 31,5
m. diameter. Unpaved.
STAGE
BUILDING: Proscaenium
supported by 14 columns. Portico of Thersilion
stood directly opposite cavea and could served as scene building of theatre. Skanotheka 35 x 8,3 m.
LOCATION: North
west from modern Megalopolis.
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. // Izenour,
George. Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity. Yale
University Press, 1992.
OUT OF PRINT: “Megara: Husband, let me tell you again, Misfortune does not have many friends”. from Herakles, by Euripides... I hosted Megalopolis ... maybe it was the fatigue of the day.
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