. The Greek theater and its drama. (see next paragraph), but is now inclined to thinkthat it belonged to the high Graeco-Roman type.^ In myjudgment, however, his earlier position is to be preferred. Iconsider it probable that stone steps led from the orchestra tothe center of the stage, as in the Phaedrus theater (Fig. 40).Just outside the gutter of the Lycurgus theater was erected amarble balustrade (Fig. 39) ,3 which stood about three and a half Cf. Dorpfeld, Das griechische Theater, p. 89. => Cf. ibid., p. 89; Athenische Mittheihmgen, XXII (1897), 459; XXIII (1898),330 and 347; and XXVII
. The Greek theater and its drama. (see next paragraph), but is now inclined to thinkthat it belonged to the high Graeco-Roman type.^ In myjudgment, however, his earlier position is to be preferred. Iconsider it probable that stone steps led from the orchestra tothe center of the stage, as in the Phaedrus theater (Fig. 40).Just outside the gutter of the Lycurgus theater was erected amarble balustrade (Fig. 39) ,3 which stood about three and a half Cf. Dorpfeld, Das griechische Theater, p. 89. => Cf. ibid., p. 89; Athenische Mittheihmgen, XXII (1897), 459; XXIII (1898),330 and 347; and XXVIII (1903), 414. For the Graeco-Roman stage see pp. 80 iiof., below. 3 Fig. 39 is from a photograph taken by Dr. Lewis L. Forman and furnishedby Dr. A. S. Cooley. Owing to its change of function, in Roman times the orches-tra was sometimes known as the Kovhrpa (= the Latin arena); owing to its changeof shape, it was sometimes called ffTyna from its resemblance to the semicircularform of the Greek letter C. ^:^: • »i I * Fig. 39.—Nero Balustrade and Pavement, and Phaedrus Stage of the Theaterin Athens. See p. 72, n. 3
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