. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fig. 183. halves, another serves as an upper passage round them; eightstairs divide the place for the spectators into nine fcepKihe?; theorchestra is very large, and agrees exactly with the statement of INTERIOR FITTINGS OF HOUSES—FOLDING-STOOLS. 133 Vitruvius; the proskenion rested on a wooden scaffolding. Thewall of the skene shows five doors, each of them originallyenclosed by two columns. Beneath these one still recognises thehollows into which the beams of the floor of the proskenionwere placed (see Fig. 183); the doors underneath led into thehyposkeni
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. Fig. 183. halves, another serves as an upper passage round them; eightstairs divide the place for the spectators into nine fcepKihe?; theorchestra is very large, and agrees exactly with the statement of INTERIOR FITTINGS OF HOUSES—FOLDING-STOOLS. 133 Vitruvius; the proskenion rested on a wooden scaffolding. Thewall of the skene shows five doors, each of them originallyenclosed by two columns. Beneath these one still recognises thehollows into which the beams of the floor of the proskenionwere placed (see Fig. 183); the doors underneath led into thehyposkenion, the position of which we have described specimens of preserved stage-buildings we shall mention inspeaking of the Roman theatre (§ 84) ; we conclude our descrip-tion with a perspective view of a Greek theatre, designed byStrack according to the statements of ancient writers and thepreserved remnants (Fig. 184).. Fig. 184. 31. In our description of the private dwellings of the Greeks,we mentioned that more even than the public buildings theyhave suffered from the influence of time. The same applies totheir interior fittings ; only the utensils deposited in graves haveescaped the common destruction ; in other cases pictures on vasesand sculptural representations must aid us in our description. The different kinds of seats are specified by the followingexpressions—hlcfypos, kKkj/jlos, xKivr^p, k\ktl}] and Opovos. Diphrosis a small, backless, easily movable stool, with four legs, eithercrossed or perpendicular. The first-mentioned form of thediphros, called also oitXctila? hippos, SicXahias, or 6pavo? 7ttvkt6^,c[(ppo? Taireivos, could easily be folded, as the seat consisted onlyof interwoven straps. It was therefore the custom amongst theAthenians to have these folding-stools carried after them by CHAIRS. slaves. ISTo less frequent were the diphroi with four perpen-dicular legs, which could nat
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