tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51675538687301174402024-03-14T06:39:19.194+01:00The Stages of Silence / Los Escenarios del SilencioGreek and Roman theatres and odeons. / Teatros griegos y romanos.Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-76119599792007882252014-07-24T00:53:00.000+02:002014-07-24T00:53:20.338+02:00Casinum (Cassino)<br />
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// 13º49’15.79’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Roman
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> First
I A.D. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Scene building rebuilt in second half of I A.D. It was restored in II
A.D. First III A.D. the orchestra was transformed in arena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 2.000
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
south-east. 53.5 m. diameter. Built against hillside. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum: Ima cavea </i>with 11 rows of seats in 4 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei; media cavea </i>with 6 rows; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">summa cavea </i>with 3 rows of seats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 16,9
m. diameter. Paved in marble, surrounded by wall (diameter at wall 14,6 m.) 3
steps for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bisellia.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Proscaenium </i>had
5 curved and 4 rectangular niches, with 2 staircases. There are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aulaeum </i>remains. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pulpitum </i>was 35,7 x 6,2. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scaenae
frons </i>was rectilinear in first times, but later it was transformed and was
built a curved niche built around <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">regia </i>door.
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Columnatio </i>with 2 storeys<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Close
to the center of the ancient town, up of the hill of modern Cassino. The
theatre is west from the amphitheatre. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman
theatres: an architectural study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.// </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina
Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio
rappresentato”</i>. Rome: SEAT, 1995 // Tosi, Giovana; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Gli edificio per spettacoli nell’Italia romana”. </i>Roma, Quasar,
2003. // Courtois, Catherine; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Le
bâtiment de scène des théâtres d’Italie et de Sicile”.</i> Providence,
Louvain-la.Neuve, 1989.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">OUT
OF PRINT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> El teatro
de Casino fue mi primera estación en el Via Crucis de los teatros antiguos de
Lazio y Campania. En cada uno de los que pertenecen a un conjunto arqueológico
visitable, tuve que justificar mis intereses académicos para poder hacer una
miserable fotografía. Aún me cuesta comprender ese recelo, como si fuera
posible esconder en una cajita los restos en campo abierto. Primera etapa de un
Via Crucis en despachos de funcionarios, rellenando formularios, cuando lo
único que quería era convertirme en lagartija y tostarme al sol, en silencio,
en las ardientes gradas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Les Arènes de THÉNAC,</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ancient
Gallia Aquitania, modern France.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">COORDINATES:
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">45º41’53.12’’N //
0º37’30.13’’ O<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Gallo-roman
theatre. Not urban.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Half
I A.D.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
north-east. 81 m. diameter. Built on flat site. It had five radial passageways.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 35
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Nothing known.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 3,5
klm. north-eat from Thénac. 5,5 klm. south from Saintes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman
theatres: an architectural study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006. // Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. Rome: SEAT, 1995.// </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Landes, Christian (Ed.); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Le gout du theatre a Rome et en Gaule
romaine”</i>. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Musée de
Lattes, 1989.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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OF PRINT:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Caía la
noche cuando visité les Arènes de Thénac, un día de enero de 2006. Fue mi
primer teatro antiguo francés. A penas unos montículos de tierra y algún resto arquitectónico disperso. Calenté una sopa en el hornillo, cercano a donde debió estar,
en su día, el frente escénico. Dormí aquella noche en mi coche, muy abrigado
por el frío, junto al teatro. No recuerdo lo que soñé, no recuerdo siquiera si <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>era consciente de lo que me depararían las
siguientes semanas, aquel fue el primer día, la primera noche, el primer
edificio, el preámbulo de un fabuloso viaje, una locura de 8000 klm. en
territorio francés, en busca de 34 teatros antiguos.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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modern Turkey. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Bouleuterion
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> I
B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Rebuilt
in half II A.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 650
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
south. 12 rows of seats in 4 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 7,2
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Proscaenium </i>was
0,8 m. high. pulpitum 24,7x3,1 m. Statues of Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus and
two Faustinas from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scaenae frons.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> In
north west corner of agora.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Izenour, George. <i>Roofed Theaters of Classical
Antiquity</i>. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yale University Press, 1992.// </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear,
Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural
study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">// </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. Rome: SEAT, 1995.// </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bean, George; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Turkey beyond the Maeander”</i>. London,
Ernst Benn, 1971.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Two
times in different years I was in ancient Nysa, two times I meet the rain. A
slow rain that showed me the ancient theatre, the stadium and the bouleuterion.
I sat in the steps of it, hearing the rain monologue, a slow monologue
that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>comfort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-52314473310253717672013-06-09T01:27:00.000+02:002014-07-24T00:11:55.761+02:00Singilia Barba (Antequera)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SINGILIA
BARBA (Antequera),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient
Hispania Baetica, modern Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDINATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">37º02’05.34’’N
// 4º37’52.44’’W<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Roman
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> First
I A.D.¿?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 1.200 ¿?
spectators </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
Facing north-northwest. 52 m. diameter. Built against hillside. The theatre is
not excavated. Only two edges of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">summa
cavea</i> is visible. It´s supposed that there would be about 18 rows of seats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> c.
15,5 m. diameter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
Ancient Singilia Barba is inside a private property, north-west from modern
Antequera; the theatre is on north slope of Cerro Castillón, in an olive tree
field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Teatros
romanos de Hispania” </i>Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, 1993.// </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear,
Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural
study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">//Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT,
1995.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> David
lives on Antequera. I contacted with him searching information about Singilia
Barba. I tried to contact in two times with archaeologist of Antequera town
hall but was not possible. David, a man in love of the ancient past of
Antequera offered me to visit the ancient town. It was a great evening, giving
a round by ancient Singilia with him. About the theatre... what to tell... it´s
not excavated but is there, I am sure there are good remains of it but not
money for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Asia Minor, modern Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDINATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">36º05´23.55’’N
// 28º05’13.38’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Greek
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> IV
B.C.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Built
against hillside, rock cut. Facing west-south west. 45m. diameter. exceeds
semicircle. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum: Ima cavea </i>with
19 rows of seats in 9 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei; summa cavea </i>probably
with 6 rows in 3 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 14
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Scene building was 19x4,8 m.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> East
of modern Lindos, on Acropolis hill.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman
theatres: an architectural study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.// Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> // </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Arias, Paolo Enrico; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Il
teatro greco fuori di Atene”. </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Firenze, G.C. Sansoni, 1934.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> I
do not cross Mediterranean sea for being near, I try and try to search the way
to be close, although shadows dogs try to discourage me. Always I wanted to be
in that theatre, when I were there I knew why... all the words reject...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LIBARNA (Serravalle Scrivia),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient
Regio IX, modern Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDINATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">44º42’24.31’’N
// 8º51’54.08’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Roman
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Last
I first II A.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> III
A.D. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 3.800
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
north-east. 57,7 m. diameter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 15
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> There are slot visible from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aulaeum. Pulpitum </i>was 35 x 4,7 m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> West
of the ancient city. The ancient city is 1,5 klm south from modern Serravalle
Scrivia, about 50 klm. north from Genova.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman
theatres: an architectural study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006. // Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> // </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Tosi, Giovana;
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Gli edificio per spettacoli nell’Italia
romana”. </i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Roma,
Quasar, 2003. / Courtois, Catherine; “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Le
bâtiment de scène des théâtres d’Italie et de Sicile”.</i> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Providence,
Louvain-la.Neuve, 1989.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> The
morning I visited Libarna I had a bigger pleasure than visiting the ancient
theatre... I eat the best crostata I have ever eaten... marvelous pleasure for levitate...
I can not forget it, you can taste it in “Il Fornio”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arkadia, modern Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> IV
B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Late
Roman stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 17.000
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
north. 131 m. diameter. Built against hillside. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum: </i>Ima cavea<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>9
rows survives but it has 20 in 9 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei Media
cavea </i>with 20 rows in 9 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei </i>too.
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Summa cavea </i>with 15 rows of seats divided
in 16 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 31,5
m. diameter. Unpaved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Proscaenium</i>
supported by 14 columns. Portico of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thersilion</i>
stood directly opposite cavea and could served as scene building of theatre. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Skanotheka </i>35 x 8,3 m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> North
west from modern Megalopolis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman
theatres: an architectural study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006. // </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT,
1995.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> // </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Izenour,
George. <i>Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity</i>. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yale
University Press, 1992.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> “Megara:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Husband, let me tell you again,
Misfortune does not have many friends”. from Herakles, by Euripides... I <span class="hps">hosted</span> <span class="hps">Megalopolis</span> <span class="hps">...</span>
<span class="hps">maybe it was</span> <span class="hps">the fatigue</span> <span class="hps">of the day</span>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-74173157444409282322013-03-22T13:46:00.002+01:002013-03-22T13:46:33.444+01:00Balbura (Katara)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">BALBURA
(Katara),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient Lycia / Asia Minor, modern Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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// 29º34’56.73’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Greek
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Mid
– II B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 1.800
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> facing
south. 36 m. diameter, exceeeds semicircle. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum</i>:
16 rows of seat are visible on 3 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 11
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> It´s the best preserved a complete wall built on
slope of polygonal rusticated masonry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Balbura
has two theatres, these is called “upper theatre” and it´s located on south
slope of north hill, 6 klm. south-east from Altinyayla, 25 klm. south from Gölishar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Yilmaz, Yasar; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Anadolu
Antik Tiyatrolari”</i>. Istanbul, Yem Yanin, 2010.// </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural study”</i>.
Oxford University Press, 2006.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> // </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio
(eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>.
Rome: SEAT, 1995</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> // </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bean, George; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Lycian
Turkey”. </i>London, Ernst Benn, 1978.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> // </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Freely, John; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Western Mediterranean coast of Turkey”.
</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Istanbul, Matbaacilik
ve Yayincilik A.S., 1997.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> These
is one of these theatres that you spent time to find it. In my first travel to
Lycia, I was not able to find it, I only had very poor references in Bean´s
book, it was a day in which I lived with the snow on road and to take
references was very difficult, I did not have a gps either. Anyway I found it
in my second travel, it was difficult but too much exciting... the bad new was
that I did not have references to look for the second one theatre, I tried to recognize
the land was it was not possible... maybe, I hope, there will be a third time,
another travel to Lycia, and I will try it again, of course.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-73639086763969204932013-02-05T15:58:00.000+01:002013-02-05T15:58:45.648+01:00Dora (Dor)<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">DORA (Dor),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ancient
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDENATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">32º37’12.06’’N
// 34º55’07.48’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Roman
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> II
or III A.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
north-north-west. 60 m. diameter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aditus
maximi </i>visible remains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Paved
in stone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Columns remains of grey and coloured marble.
Corinthian capitals found.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 200
m. north of northern edge of town. Dor is 60 klm. north from Tel Aviv.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Segal, Arthur; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Theatres
in Roman Palestine & provincia Arabia”.</i> New York, E.J. Brill., 1995. //
Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural
study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.// </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio
(eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that I found in my visit to ancient Dora told me that the ancient theatre
remains are actually the private WC of the bathers... well some latin comedy
was always full of eschatology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-83064865478978877002013-01-29T16:40:00.000+01:002013-01-29T16:40:28.850+01:00Teate Marrucinorum (Chieti)<br />
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MARRUCINORUM (Chieti),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient Regio IV, modern Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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// 14º09’48.21’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Roman
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Second
half of I A.D. or first II A.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Orchestra
was transformed in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">colimbetra </i>for
water games.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
north-north-west. 84 m. diameter. Built against slope the centre of cavea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Under modern buildings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> In
south-west part of town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Tosi, Giovana; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Gli
edificio per spettacoli nell’Italia romana”. </i>Roma, Quasar, 2003.// </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear,
Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural
study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">// Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT,
1995.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> If
you pretend to find some <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">columnatio </i>in
the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scaenae
frons</i> you will find clothes drying in the sun, anyway I have always thought
both are pretty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-40860743714947793672013-01-23T10:18:00.002+01:002013-01-23T10:18:24.813+01:00Side (Side)<br />
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(Side),</u> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient Pamphylia / Asia Minor, modern Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDENATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">36º46’04.92’’N
// 31º23’26.32E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Roman
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Last
II A.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> It
may probably have been an earlier Greek theatre. In III A.D. it was transformed
in amphitheatre. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 10.000spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
north-east. 120 m. diameter. Bilt against slope, although <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">summa cavea </i>have 2 levels of substructures. 23 radial barrel-vaults
appear on façade. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum: Ima cavea</i>
with 30 rows of seats in 11 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei. Summa
cavea </i>with 25 rows in 24 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 29
m. diameter, surrounded by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">podium.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pulpitum </i>have
trapezoidal shape. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scaenae frons </i>was
rectilinear, with 5 doors; 2 storey for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">columnatio.
Postscaenium </i>with 9 rooms. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Podium </i>of
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scaenae frons </i>with relief sculptures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Side
is 65 klm. east from Antalya.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Yilmaz, Yasar; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Anadolu
Antik Tiyatrolari”</i>. Istanbul, Yem Yanin, 2010 // </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural study”</i>.
Oxford University Press, 2006.// </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ciancio Rossetto, Paola;
Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del
linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> // </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bean, George; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Turkey´s southern shore”. </i>London,
Ernest Benn Limited, 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> In
Side ancient theatre I played jigsaw... you only have to look at the scattered relief
sculpture remains of the podium and let the mind to fly.</span></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ATHENAE (Athina),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient Achaia, modern Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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// 23º43’23.28’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Roman
odeon, known as Odeon of Agrippa. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Last
I B.C.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> In
150 A.D. was transformed for public lectures.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 1.000
spectators. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
north. Auditorium square 25 x 25 m., 19 rows of seats in 6 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei. </i>Overall dimensions of the building 51,3 x 43,2 m.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 18,5
m., paved in polychrome marble.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pulpitum </i>25
x 3 m. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Proscaenium </i>rectilinear. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scaenae frons is </i>rectilinear too, with
three doors. There are three marble statues in the place, well preserved, they
were part of the decoration; drum columns too of the Corinthian order.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> The
Roman odeon of Agrippa is in the Agora.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman
theatres: an architectural study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006. // Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> // </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Izenour,
George. <i>Roofed Theaters of Classical Antiquity</i>. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Yale University Press, 1992.</span></span><br />
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to the cries of their people... “Because gods perceive future things, men what
is happening now, but wise men perceive approaching things” wrote Philostratus in
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(Concordia Sagittaria), </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ancient
Regio X, modern Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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// 12º50’26.10’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Roman
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> I
A.D.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scaenae frons</i> reformed in last I A.D.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
east south-east. 80 m. diameter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum:
Ima cavea </i>with 16 rows of seats; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">summa
cavea: ?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> It
was transformed for amphitheatre games.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Proscaenium </i>was
rectilinear. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Porticus post scaenam </i>traces
found.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> The
place of the ancient Roman theatre is west of Concordia Sagittaria, 60 klm.
south-west from Udine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Tosi, Giovana; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Gli
edificio per spettacoli nell’Italia romana”. </i></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Roma, Quasar, 2003.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US">// </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural study”</i>.
Oxford University Press, 2006.// </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ciancio Rossetto, Paola;
Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del
linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rome: SEAT, 1995</span>.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">OUT
OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> Also nowadays
there´s not visible remains of the Roman theatre, in 1879 excavations revealed
some traces;one century later, in 1980, new excavations reveled part of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scaena</i> wall. Nothing visible today, but
special for me, iConcordia Sagittaria was the first “theatre” I visited in my
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Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-20126939798930809192012-12-21T09:53:00.000+01:002012-12-27T20:28:11.022+01:00Scupi (Skopje)<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SCUPI (Skopje),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient
Moesia Superior, modern FYR of Macedonia.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Roman
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> II
a.D.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
south-west. 98 m. diameter. Built against hillside, lower <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cavea</i> rested on annular corridors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 28
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scaenae
frons, regia </i>door in a curved niche, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hospitalias
</i>in rectangular niches. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Columnatio </i>in
Corinthian order. There is a passageway that connect stage building with
orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Ancient
theatre is west of modern Skopje.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Anticki teatar
na tlu Jugoslavije</i>”, Novi Sad, 1881. // </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural study”</i>.
Oxford University Press, 2006. // </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT,
1995.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></span></div>
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will not forget my visit to ancient Scupi...in the evening I visited the roman
theatre, by night Spanish national football team won the World Championship. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-80591797730632101092012-12-17T02:31:00.000+01:002012-12-17T02:31:31.092+01:00Colonia Patricia Corduba (Córdoba)<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">COLONIA PATRICIA CORDUBA
(Córdoba), </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ancient
Baetica / Hispania, modern Spain.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last
I B.C.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10.000
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Facing
south-east. 124 m. diameter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum:
Ima cavea </i>with 14 rows of seats, number 10 and 11 are preserved, divided in
6 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei.; Media cavea </i>with 20 rows of
seats divided in 12 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei; Summa cavea </i>with
6 rows<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>There is an axial <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vomitorium</i> that leads directly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the orchestra and bisects the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ima cavea.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">31
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BUILDING: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
remains are inside Archaeological museum, in Jerónimo Paéz square.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">MY BEDSIDE TABLE: </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Jornadas
sobre teatros romanos en Hispania” </span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Grafisur,
Córdoba, 2006. // <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“El teatro romano. La
puesta en escena”</i> . Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Or perhaps
you think I am equal to you and indecisive to the destiny”<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Lucano,
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Farsalia”-</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span>Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-58125878369235654312012-12-11T20:54:00.000+01:002012-12-11T20:54:14.925+01:00Metropolis (Yeniköy, Torbali)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">METROPOLIS
(Yeniköy, Torbali),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient Ionia / Asia Minor, modern Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDENATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">38º07’26.28’’N
// 27º19’28.91’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Greek
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> III
B.C. ¿?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Scene
building restored in Roman times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 2,600
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
south.east. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum: Ima cavea </i>with
11 rows of seats in 7 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei; Summa cavea </i>does
not reach the semicircle<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, </i>with 8 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei </i>some of them<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>with 12 rows, other with 8 rows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 12,2
m. diameter. Paved in color marble. There are 4 thrones for dignitaries with
griffin´s feet and lion´s claws and 2 cylindrical altars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> The stage is 5,3 m. wide. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Proscaenium: </i>there are 8 colums preserved in site<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Theatre
is south-east of the acropolis hill, north-west of Yeniköy, 4 klm. south-west
from Torbali, 30 klm. north from Ephesos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Yilmaz, Yasar; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Anadolu
Antik Tiyatrolari”</i>. Istanbul, Yem Yanin, 2010. // </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural study”</i>.
Oxford University Press, 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Metroplis
was a great surprise... in my first travel to Turkey, although it had been yet
excavated, i did not know its existence; second time I were in Ionia land, I
found not only a great theatre, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ima cavea</i>
very well preserved, with marvellous stone thrones for dignitaries, like in
Priene or Amphiaron, and altars too; it was a great award, the day before
returning to the great Epheso. But Metroplis had other great surprise for me,
after visiting the ancient Greek theatre I took a round for the city remains
and, oh my god!, I meet with something i did not have notice about... the
remains of an ancient odeon or bouleuterion that had being recently excavated...
that evening I won the lottery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-85069372422677629022012-12-03T16:02:00.000+01:002012-12-03T16:02:33.526+01:00Derventum (Drévant)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DERVENTUM (Drévant),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient
Gallia Aquitania. modern France.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDINATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">46º41’35.13N
// 2º31’21.35’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rural
ritual Gallo-Roman theatre. Not urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
Last I or first II A.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> III
and IV A.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 5.000
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Facing
south-west. 85 m. diameter. Rest on hillside. There were three<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> maeniana: Ima cavea </i>with 10 rows of
seats in 4 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 27
m. diameter, surrounded by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">podium</i>,
2,6 m. high.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Scene building 18,5 x 7 m. It was roofed by 4 Doric
columns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Ancient
Derventum is in modern Drevant, 45 klm. south of Bourges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Grenier, Albert; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Manuel
d’archeologie Gallo-Romain”. </i>Paris, Éditions A. Et J. Picard, 1958. // Landes,
Christian (Ed.); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Le gout du theatre a
Rome et en Gaule romaine”</i>. Musée de Lattes, 1989. // </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear,
Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural
study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">// </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina
Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio
rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> I spent one
winter crossing France searching for the ancient stages...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">““<span class="quote2">It is snowing on my roof and on the trees. The wall
and the garden are white,</span><br />
<span class="quote2">the path black, and the house has given way without a sound.
</span></span><span class="quote2"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">It
is snowing.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>–Pierre Reverdy-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-89612200806195375362012-11-25T07:55:00.000+01:002012-11-25T07:55:28.115+01:00Akrai (Palazzolo Acreide)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">AKRAI (Palazzolo Acreide),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ancient
Magna Graecia / Sicilia, modern Sicilia, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">COORDINATES:
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">37º03’27.27’’N //
14º53’40.77’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Greek
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Late
III B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Roman stage and orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">700
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Facing
north. 37,5 m. diameter. Semicircular <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cavea.
</i>Only one <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">maeniana </i>with 15 rows of
seats in 9 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">19,2
m. diameter, paved in limestone in Roman times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Pulpitum </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">is
13,7 x 2,6 m. Roman stage 1,2 m. high, with curved niches. Evidence of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">thyromata.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
theatre is next to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bouleuterion</i>.
Ancient Akrai is west of Palazzolo Acreide, 50 klm. west from Syracuse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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greci e teatri inspirati all’architecttura greca in Sicilia e nell’Italia
Meridionale c. 350-<st1:metricconverter productid="50 a" w:st="on">50 a</st1:metricconverter>.C.”.
</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Roma, L’Erma di
Bretschneider, 1988 // Tosi, Giovana; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Gli
edificio per spettacoli nell’Italia romana”. </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Roma, Quasar,
2003. // </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman
theatres: an architectural study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">// Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT,
1995.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Where are my bay-leaves? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Come, Thestylis; where are my love-charms? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Come crown me the bowl with the crimson flower o’ wool”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Theocritus of Syracuse-<o:p></o:p></span>Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-73173706789067125182012-11-17T09:01:00.000+01:002012-11-17T09:01:50.445+01:00Letoon (Kumluova)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LETOON (Kumluova), </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient Lycia / Asia Minor,
modern Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDINATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">36º19’55.09’’N
// 29º17’23.87’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Greek
theatre. Not urban. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">First
half of II B.C.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rebuilt in II A.D.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5.700
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Facing
north-west. Built in hollow. 79 m. diameter, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cavea </i>exceeds semicircle. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum:
Ima cavea </i>with 16 rows of seats in 12 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei,
</i>top rows with continuous back; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Summa
cavea </i>with 17 rows in 20 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei. </i>Frieze
with bearbead heads of Dionysos in east doorway arched.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It
was surrounded by podium. Not excavated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Proscaenium </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">with
Doric half-columns; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scaenae frons </i>had
two-storey <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">columnatio.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Theatre
is part of Xanthian sanctuary of Letoon, the sanctuary is in modern Kumluova, 4
klm. south-west from Kinik, 70 klm. south from Fethiye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE: </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yilmaz, Yasar; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Anadolu
Antik Tiyatrolari”</i>. Istanbul, Yem Yanin, 2010. // </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bean, George; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Lycian Turkey”. </i>London, Ernst Benn,
1978. // Freely, John; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The Western
Mediterranean coast of Turkey”. </i>Istanbul, Matbaacilik ve Yayincilik A.S.,
1997. // Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an
architectural study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006. // </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina
Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio
rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“If it had happened short or long time ago<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I do not know<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">if we did this trip<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">or just seems to me<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I do not know”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Nâzim
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36º09’58.52’’N // 9º46’26.40’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Roman
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Imperial
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANFORMATIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Facing
south-west. Three rows of seat preserved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">22
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">22x12 m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Theatre
remains are west of ancient town. Oum El Abouad is in C46 road, 85 klm.
north-east from Mactaris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE: </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Lachaux, Jean-Claude. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Théâtres et
amphithéâtres d’Afrique Proconsulaire”. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Aix en Provence,
Édisud, 1979. // </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman
theatres: an architectural study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.// </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina
Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio
rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span> </div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Heroically<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">one hero strips his heroism to the air<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">to smoke a little of sad, lonely<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">in exile”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Youssef Rzouga”-<o:p></o:p></span>Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-53632364066957608142012-11-04T18:19:00.000+01:002012-11-04T18:19:02.588+01:00Delos (Dilos Island)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DELOS (DILOS),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient Achaia, modern Cyclades, Greece.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDINATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3Gº23’52.96’’N
// 25º16’14.96’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Cultic
greek theatre. Urban. It´s not the big theatre in Delos, is the small one
associated to the Sanctuary of the Syrian gods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>II B.C.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">500
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Facing
west. Built against hillside, 20,6 m. diameter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cavea</i> exceeds semicircle. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum:
</i>12 rows of seats in 5 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10,6
m. diameter, paved in mosaic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">there´s not traces. Probably never had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
theatre is in Delos island, south-east in the ancient city; the theatre is part
of the Syrian gods sanctuary, 0,25 kllm. north-east from the big Greek theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE: </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Nielsen, Inge. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Cultic
theatre and ritual drama”. </i>Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, 2002. // </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear,
Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural
study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.// </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds);
“<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome:
SEAT, 1995.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span> </div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
theatre did not belong to the sanctuary originaly, but was constructed in the
enlargement carried out in 113-104 B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-80550922004714654422012-10-23T11:01:00.000+02:002012-12-31T04:08:28.627+01:00Heloros (Eloro)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">HELOROS (Eloro), </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">ancient Magna Grecia / Sicilia. modern
Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">COORDENATES:
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">36º50’28.05’’N //
15º06’20.93’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Greek
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">IV
B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1.200
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Facing
south. 45 m. diameter. Built against hillside. It had 15 rows of seats (11 are
visible) in 5 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei</i> (there are only
remains of three). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cavea </i>exceeds
semicircle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">15
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE BUILDING:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Theatre
is south of the city, close to the stream. Eloro is 2 klm. south from Lido di
Noto, about 40 klm. south from Siracusa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE: </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mitens, Karina; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Teatri
greci e teatri inspirati all’architecttura greca in Sicilia e nell’Italia
Meridionale c. 350-<st1:metricconverter productid="50 a" w:st="on">50 a</st1:metricconverter>.C.”.
</i></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Roma, L’Erma di
Bretschneider, 1988. // Maggi, Stefano; Troso, Cristina. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Guida all’Italia archeologica”. </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Casale
Monferrato, Piemme, 2007.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>// </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear,
Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural
study”</i>. Oxford University Press, 2006.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//
Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e
Romani: alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome:
SEAT, 1995.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></div>
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ancient theatre of Heloros is close to the beach... the morning I visited
Heloros I wished to have my plastic rake, bucket and shovel to dig it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-42511896545610510552012-10-21T16:10:00.000+02:002012-10-21T16:29:17.758+02:00Elis (Ilida)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ELIS (Ilida), </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient Eleia / Acaya, modern
Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">COORDENATES:
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">37º53’36.65’’N //
21º22’32.33’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Greek
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">First
half IV B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8.000
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Facing
north-west. 104 m. diameter. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cavea</i>
exceeds semicircle. Built on natural slope. Rows of earth terraces in steps,
divided into 7 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei; </i>later stones
steps placed on top of ramps. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paradoi </i>remains
well preserved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">21
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE BUILDING:
</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Proscaenium </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">supported
by Ionic columns. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stage </i>was 22x2,8 m.
The scene building was 22 m. long but with wings at sides, ramps, 46 m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ancient
theatre is north of agora, close to Dionysos temple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE: </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural study”</i>.
Oxford University Press, 2006.// Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani
Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio
rappresentato”</i>. Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> //</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Mee, Christopher; Spawforth, Anthony; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Greece. Oxford archeological guides”.</i> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Oxford University Press, 2001. // Arias,
Paolo Enrico; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Il teatro greco fuori di
Atene”. </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Firenze, G.C. Sansoni, 1934.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alejandro Britoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17103708121082538795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5167553868730117440.post-28234092067194261802012-10-19T16:54:00.001+02:002012-10-19T16:54:14.380+02:00Arretium (Castelsecco / Arezzo)
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ARRETIUM (Castelsecco / San Cornelio / Arezzo),</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ancient
Regio VII, modern Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">COORDINATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">43º26’40.98’’N
// 11º54’00.93’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TIPOLOGY: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Roman
cultic theatre. Not urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">DATE: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">II
B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TRANSFORMATIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAPACITY:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CAVEA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">facing
south-west, 45 m. diameter. There are remains of 4 lowest rows of seats, now
covered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ORCHESTRA: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">12,5
m. diameter, paved in stone slabs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">STAGE
BUILDING: </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Proscaenium </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">was
rectilinear, also the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scaenae frons.
Pulpitum was </i>18 x 6,5 m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LOCATION: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The
theatre is connected with temple, 105 m. away, in the hill of Castelsecco, san
Cornelio, 4 klm. south from modern Arezzo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE: </span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tosi, Giovana; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Gli
edificio per spettacoli nell’Italia romana”. </i>Roma, Quasar, 2003. //<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural study”</i>.
Oxford University Press, 2006.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">// Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio
(eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT, 1995.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When
I visited the place I was not sure that the theatre were there, I was not sure
I was in the right place... but it was, I could check it months later, checking
some plans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">KAUNOS (Dalyan), </span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">ancient Caria / Asia Minor,
modern Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">COORDINATES: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">36º49’31.41’’N
// 28º37’23.57’’E<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TIPOLOGY: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Greek
theatre. Urban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">DATE: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">II
B.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">TRANSFORMATIONS:
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">scene building I B.C., rebuilt in roman times in II A.D.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CAPACITY: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">5.500
spectators.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">CAVEA: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Facing
south-west. Built against hillside. 73 m. diameter, exceeds semicircle; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Maenianum: Ima cavea </i>with 18 rows of
seats in 9 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Summa cavea</i> with 15 rows in 9 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cunei.</i> Top rows in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ima </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">summa </i>with
continuous stone-back rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">O</span></strong><span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RCHESTRA</span>: </strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">21
m. diameter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">STAGE
BUILDING: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hellenistic<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">proscaenium </i>remains with 16 Doric
columns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">LOCATION: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Near
foot of acropolis hill. 2 klm. south-west from modern Dalyan, crossing the
river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">MY BEDSIDE TABLE:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yilmaz, Yasar; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Anadolu
Antik Tiyatrolari”</i>. Istanbul, Yem Yanin, 2010. //</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bean, George; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Turkey
beyond the Maeander”</i>. London, Ernst Benn, 1971.// Sear, Frank; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Roman theatres: an architectural study”</i>.
Oxford University Press, 2006.// </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Ciancio
Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “<i>Teatri Greci e Romani:
alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”</i>. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Rome: SEAT,
1995.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">OUT OF PRINT: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After
tasting the silence of ancient Kaunos an old woman, dressed severly in black,
crossed me to the other side, in her small boat, to Dalyan. She was about 80
years old, paddled slowly, slowly, slowly as you have to savor Kaunos. From the
river I could hear the call to pray, and something in my chest was recorded in
fire for ever... I was the protagonist of a film by Angelopoulos. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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