. The Greek theater and its drama. t permanent scene-building was built about 300 (Fig. 60). The dotted lines show the position of the stoneproscenium, eight and a half feet high and nine feet ten inchesdeep, which was erected in the first century (Fig. 61).There were no parascenia. The seven openings {dvpcofiaTo) in theepiscenium furnish an interesting parallel to the five at Oropus(see p. 109, above). In the last half of the first century this Cf. Dorpfeld in Athenische Mittheilungen, XXII (1897), 458, and XXVlIl(1903), 429. * Fig. 59 is taken from Niemanns drawing in Forsckung
. The Greek theater and its drama. t permanent scene-building was built about 300 (Fig. 60). The dotted lines show the position of the stoneproscenium, eight and a half feet high and nine feet ten inchesdeep, which was erected in the first century (Fig. 61).There were no parascenia. The seven openings {dvpcofiaTo) in theepiscenium furnish an interesting parallel to the five at Oropus(see p. 109, above). In the last half of the first century this Cf. Dorpfeld in Athenische Mittheilungen, XXII (1897), 458, and XXVlIl(1903), 429. * Fig. 59 is taken from Niemanns drawing in Forsckungen in Ephesos, II,PI. VIII; and Figs. 60-62 are from drawings by Wilberg, ibid., Figs. 5, 56, and57, respectively. Cf. also Dorpfeld, Das Theater von Ephesos, Jahrbiich d. , Anzeiger, XXVIII (1913), 37 ff. ) 112 THE GREEK THEATER AND ITS DRAMA structure was converted into a Graeco-Roman type (Figs. 24and 62). The new logium was left of the same height as theold proscenium, but was made nearly twenty feet deep; and at. Fig. 60.—Ground Plan of the Early Hellenistic Theater at EphesusSee p. Ill, n. 2 certain points this depth received a considerable accession fromthe recesses of the new proscenium (Fig. 59). These changeswere made at the expense of the orchestra, which derived somecompensation from the fact that several rows of the lowest seats INTRODUCTION 3 were removed; as a result the orchestra became a sort of pit(Fig. 24). The hyposcenium was plain and was pierced bythree doors leading into the orchestra. The top story of theproscenium in Fig. 59 was not added until the third century (b) was employed at Priene (Figs. 63 f.).* Thistheater enjoys the distinction of being the only one in which analtar was found, and this was not situated in the center of theorchestra, as the foundations at Athens and Epidaurus would
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