COORDENATES:
36º50’28.05’’N //
15º06’20.93’’E
TIPOLOGY: Greek
theatre. Urban.
DATE: IV
B.C.
TRANSFORMATIONS:
CAPACITY: 1.200
spectators.
CAVEA: Facing
south. 45 m. diameter. Built against hillside. It had 15 rows of seats (11 are
visible) in 5 cunei (there are only
remains of three). Cavea exceeds
semicircle.
ORCHESTRA: 15
m. diameter.
STAGE BUILDING:
LOCATION: 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.
MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Mitens, Karina; “Teatri
greci e teatri inspirati all’architecttura greca in Sicilia e nell’Italia
Meridionale c. 350-50 a .C.”.
Roma, L’Erma di
Bretschneider, 1988. // Maggi, Stefano; Troso, Cristina. “Guida all’Italia archeologica”. Casale
Monferrato, Piemme, 2007. // 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: The
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.
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