The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . the FOUR nUADRANGLE BUILDING IN THE DISTANCE Before quitting this theatre it may be remarked that interesting and attractive theory of the occupancyof orchestra and stage equally by the players in a Greek drama,is difficult of application in this individual case, in consequenceof the great difference in level—eleven or twelve feet—betweenthe two. So great a disparity of surface would, as most people ASKLEPIOS AT EPIDAUROS AND ATHENS 21 think, seriously inte
The temples and ritual of Asklepios at Epidauros and AthensTwo lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain . the FOUR nUADRANGLE BUILDING IN THE DISTANCE Before quitting this theatre it may be remarked that interesting and attractive theory of the occupancyof orchestra and stage equally by the players in a Greek drama,is difficult of application in this individual case, in consequenceof the great difference in level—eleven or twelve feet—betweenthe two. So great a disparity of surface would, as most people ASKLEPIOS AT EPIDAUROS AND ATHENS 21 think, seriously interfere with the unity of the representation,even if flights of steps connected orchestra and stage. X in Plate I represents part of the Stadium, which is aboutsix hundred feet long. Here are remains of at least fifteenrows of marble seats. Probably foot races took place here aswell as other forms of athletic exercise. All the maps of theHieron represent the eastern end of the Stadium as semicircular,but so far as one can judge, the latest excavations indicate thatit was square, and therefore I have so represented PLATE XVIII — East end of Stadium Assuming that the fifteen rows or seats extended from endto end on each side, and allowing a toot and a half for eachperson, the Stadium would seat twelve thousand spectators onits two sides, without computing the seats at the ends. Plate XVIII represents the excavation at the end adjacentto the Hieron. Y in Plate I (shown also in Plate XVIII) iseither the starting place or the goal. Z is a subterraneanpassage probably communicating with the precinct. 22 THE TEMPLES AND RITUAL OF An inscription (found in 1896) mentioned by Mr. Frazer,shows that a hippodrome also existed at the Hieron. On Mount Kynortion, some distance south of the greattheatre, stood the temple of the Maleatean Apollo. Theremains are so fragmentary that it is difficult to devise aconjectural restoration. II. The Asklepieion at Athens. Before saying anything a
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