The Architecture of the Ancient Greek Theatre

Rune Frederiksen, Elizabeth R. Gebhard, Alexander Sokolicek, Rune Frederiksen, Elizabeth R. Gebhard, Alexander Sokolicek

• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9788771243802
• eBook ISBN: 9788771249965
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Architecture

In this volume the leading experts on ancient Greek theatre architecture present new excavation results and new analyses of individual monuments. Many well-known theatres such as the one of Dionysos in Athens and others at for instance Messene, Sikyon, Chaironeia in Greece and Aphrodisias in Turkey have been re-examined since their original publication with stunning results. New research also includes less well-known or newly discovered ancient Greek theatres in Albania, Turkey, Cyprus and Sicily. Further studies on the history of research, regional theatrical developments, terminology and function, as well as a perspective on Roman theatres built in Greek traditions make this volume a comprehensive book of new research for specialist scholars as well as for students and the interested public. Fundamental publications on the topic have not been presented for many years, and this book aims to form a new foundation for the study of theatre architecture.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Titlepage
• Colophon
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Studies on Greek Theatres
• The Wooden Theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus in Athens
• Early Greek Theatre Architecture
• Form and Function of the Earliest Greek Theatres
• The Sunken Orchestra
• The Greek Vocabulary of Theatrical Architecture
• New Studies of the Theatre at Iasos
• New Investigations in the Ephesian Theatre
• Building the Early Hellenistic Theatre at Sikyon
• The Theatre of Dodona
• The Hellenistic Theatre at Corinth
• The Theatre at Messene
• The Hellenistic Theatre in the Sanctuary of Hemithea at Kastabos (Asia Minor)
• The Ancient Theatre at Maroneia
• Old and New Observations from the Theatre at Aigeira
• The ‘South Building’ in the Main Urban Sanctuary of Selinunte
• The Theatre at Halikarnassos
• The Hellenistic Phases of the Theatre at Nea Paphos in Cyprus
• The Architecture of the Greek Theatre of Apollonia in Illyria (Albania) and its Transformation in Roman Times
• Boeotian Theatres: An Overview of the Regional Architecture
• Architecture and Romanization
• Was Dörpfeld Right? Some Observations on the Development of the Raised Stage in Asia Minor
• The Carian Theatre at Aphrodisias
• ‘Traditional’ Elements in the Roman Redesign of the Hellenistic Theatre in Patara, Turkey
• The Hellenistic Theatre of Ephesus
• Traditional Hellenistic Elements in the Architecture of Ancient Theatres in Roman Asia Minor
• Thematic bibliography
• Index of names and places
• Index of subjects
• List of contributors