. The Greek theater and its drama. rrower meaning. = Fig. 24 is taken from Wilbergs drawing, simplified by the omission of numer-ous details, in Forschimgen in Ephesos, II, Fig. 96. I am responsible for the addi-tion of the names. 3 That this platform (or rather its equivalent in purely Roman theaters)might be conventionally regarded as the roof of the scene-building appears fromSeneca Medea, vs. 973 (Medea speaking): excelsa nostrae tecta conscendamdomus, and vs. 995 (Jason speaking): en ipsa tecti parte praecipiti imminet. * The word occurs only in Pollux, Onomasticon, IV, § 127. INTRODUCTIO
. The Greek theater and its drama. rrower meaning. = Fig. 24 is taken from Wilbergs drawing, simplified by the omission of numer-ous details, in Forschimgen in Ephesos, II, Fig. 96. I am responsible for the addi-tion of the names. 3 That this platform (or rather its equivalent in purely Roman theaters)might be conventionally regarded as the roof of the scene-building appears fromSeneca Medea, vs. 973 (Medea speaking): excelsa nostrae tecta conscendamdomus, and vs. 995 (Jason speaking): en ipsa tecti parte praecipiti imminet. * The word occurs only in Pollux, Onomasticon, IV, § 127. INTRODUCTION 6i the stage, or its front wall alone, was known as the hyposcenium{vKoaK-qviov; inro, beneath+(r/<7;ii7).^ There were now twosets of parodi, leading upon the stage and into the orchestrarespectively. These two paragraphs are meant for purposes oforientation and are written from the standpoint of one whobelieves with Dorpfeld that in Greek theaters of the classicalperiod actors and chorus normally moved upon the same level.*. Fig. 24.—Cross-Section of the Graeco-Roman Theater at Ephesus with Names of Its Parts. See p. 60, n. 2 A Greek town could hardly be ^^ <;mn]1 or <;n rpmntp a<^ not —-y to have its own theatpr anrl rlramatiV fp^fival fFj^rs ?:; anr] ynfV^ ^^f The Greek theaters were regularly bpilt npnn a Viill«;iHp and often Ncommanded an outlook over a scene of great natural beauty / mrj pjrtiirpc;qnPTieSS fFigS. 26-28).^ fSo ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^nrtllff^ Dorpfeld applies the term to the first story of the purely Greek (stageless)theater (see p. 100, below). ^ For a discussion of the technical terms from the traditional standpoint, Miiller, Untersuchungen zu den Biihnenalterthumern, Philologus, Supple-mentband, VII (1899), 3 ff. Many of the terms, notably (tktivo, have numeroussecondary meanings; cf. Flickinger, Plutarch as a Source of Information on theGreek Theater, pp. 23 ff., and Scherling, De Vocis 2kijii5, Quantum ad TheatrumGraecum Pertinet, Signi
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