Aegeira (Egira)

AEGEIRA (Egira), ancient Achaea, Peloponeso, modern Greece.

COORDINATES: 38º07’42.67’’N // 22º22’40.00’’E

TIPOLOGY : Greek theatre. Urban.
DATE: First half of III B.C.
TRANSFORMATIONS: II A.D.
CAPACITY: 3.000 spectators.
CAVEA: Facing nort-east. 55 m. diameter. Two third of seat carved on the rock. Maenianum: Ima cavea: 12 rows of seats in 11 cunei. Summa cavea: unknow number of rows and cunei, although it was smaller than semicircle.
ORCHESTRA: 14,40 m. diameter.
STAGE BUILDING: Greek stage was 15,4 x 2,9 m. while Roman stage was 16,7 x 5,6 m. Roman scaenae frons had five niches and a two storeys columnatio.
LOCATION: Part of Zeus sanctuary. In Palaiokastro hill. About 60 klm. west from Corinth.
MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Lange, Judith; Bosnakis, Dimitris; “Ancient theatres”. Athens, Itanos, 1996. // Maximos, Platon; “Ancient Hellenic theatres”. Athens, 1998. // Maximos, Platon; “Fair competition: ancient stadia – ancient theatres”, Athens, 2004. // Mee, Christopher; Spawforth, Anthony; “Greece. Oxford archeological guides”. Oxford University Press, 2001. // Arias, Paolo Enrico; “Il teatro greco fuori di Atene”. Firenze, G.C. Sansoni, 1934. // Cailler, Pierre; Cailler, Diky; Bettex, Ivan; “Les Théatres gréco-romains de Grèce”. Laussane. Style. 1966.// Sear, Frank; “Roman theatres: an architectural study”. Oxford University Press, 2006. // Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”. Rome: SEAT, 1995.

 

OUT OF PRINT: From Aegeira ancient theatres you have a not words view, you can see the golf of Corinth, the north of the Akrata headland and the opposite shore of central Greece. I think in ancient times the Greek gods mastered Hellas without much effort, counting the hours pass.