. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . 181. et al. « Val. Max. p. (J6. Steph. 1544. » Enc, » Clarke, iii. 2D3. merely for convenience of vision, butfor aid to the Pausanias says/ that the finest the-atre in all Greece was that of Epidau-rus, built under the superintendanceof Polycletus, for the recreation of in-vabds in the leron (i. e. the airing-ground) of the Temple, and we shouldadd. Hospital of Esculapius. Theaudience hemicycle consists at pre-sent of fifty-five steps or seats, beingseparated from each other ^ by morethan twenty
. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . 181. et al. « Val. Max. p. (J6. Steph. 1544. » Enc, » Clarke, iii. 2D3. merely for convenience of vision, butfor aid to the Pausanias says/ that the finest the-atre in all Greece was that of Epidau-rus, built under the superintendanceof Polycletus, for the recreation of in-vabds in the leron (i. e. the airing-ground) of the Temple, and we shouldadd. Hospital of Esculapius. Theaudience hemicycle consists at pre-sent of fifty-five steps or seats, beingseparated from each other ^ by morethan twenty narroM passages, whichradiate, like the spokes of a wheelfrom the orchestra (i. e. our pit) tothe upper seats (our galleries). An-other horizontal passage or gallery ^divides these compartments of seatsinto an upper portion for the inferiorranks, and a lower for those of station.*^ This part is quite intelligible. Thegeneral outline was simply this fseecut), and the Avhole in constructionnearly reseml)led our equestrian amphi-theatres and circuses, as such placesare 1. The Audience part. 2. The Orchestra (with us the Pit),at Epidaurus 89 feet diameter,* wasdevoted to the chorus/ who dancedaround an altar in the centre, the mu- y Albert!, fol. cxxviii. 69- 1. 41. ed. Syl- burg. Sir William Gell (Argolis) has given inte-resting plates of it. * These compartmentsformed the KepKobts or cunei. ^ 8ia^aifxa, prse-cinctio. ^ This whole audience part was calledKoiXov, by the Romans cavea, and the wedge-likecompartments had appropriate names, given in theClassical Antiquities, i. Ill, 112, from the new edi-tion of Athens, vol. iv. Cells Argolis, 107—109. evfiiKr]. PUBLICK EDIFICES OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS THEATRES. 55 sic consisting, according to vases andpaintings, of wind-instruments, moreespecially pipes, and the performersnot seated in a pew, as now, but stand-ing on the Thymele. At the end of theOrchestra, in front of the Stage, (wherenow is our music pew
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