The Greek theater and its drama

Name: The Greek theater and its drama
Author: Flickinger, Roy C. (Roy Caston)

Flickinger, Roy C. (Roy Caston)

Drama -- Technique; Greek drama -- History and criticism; Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500

FIG. 53.—GROUND PLAN OF THE THEATER AT ERETRIA IN EUBOEA           105

    FIG. 54.—CROSS-SECTION OF THE THEATER AT ERETRIA                   106

    FIG. 55.—THE THEATER AT ERETRIA AS SEEN FROM THE
            NORTHWEST                                         _facing_ 106

    FIG. 56.—GROUND PLAN OF THE THEATER AT OROPUS IN ATTICA            109

    FIG. 57.—THE SCENE-BUILDING OF THE THEATER AT OROPUS      _facing_ 106

    FIG. 58.—GROUND PLAN OF THE GRAECO-ROMAN THEATER AT TERMESSUS      110

    FIG. 59.—THE PROSCENIUM OF THE GRAECO-ROMAN THEATER AT
            EPHESUS                                           _facing_ 111

    FIG. 60.—GROUND PLAN OF THE EARLY HELLENISTIC THEATER AT EPHESUS   112

    FIG. 61.—THE LATER HELLENISTIC THEATER AT EPHESUS: ABOVE,
            ELEVATION OF PROSCENIUM AND EPISCENIUM; BELOW,
            GROUND PLAN OF PROSCENIUM AND PARODI                       113

    FIG. 62.—GROUND PLAN OF THE GRAECO-ROMAN THEATER AT EPHESUS        114

    FIG. 63.—GROUND PLAN AND CROSS-SECTION OF THE THEATER AT PRIENE    115

    FIG. 64.—THE THEATER AT PRIENE AS SEEN FROM THE SOUTHEAST _facing_ 111

    FIG. 65.—A “WAGON-SHIP” OF DIONYSUS AND PROCESSIONAL UPON
            AN ATTIC SKYPHOS IN BOLOGNA OF ABOUT 500 B.C.     _facing_ 120

    FIG. 66.—IVORY STATUETTE OF A TRAGIC ACTOR                _facing_ 162

    FIG. 67.—DISTRIBUTION OF RÔLES TO ACTORS IN SOPHOCLES’
            _Oedipus at Colonus_                                       180

    FIG. 68.—MASK OF A SLAVE IN NEW COMEDY                    _facing_ 212

    FIG. 69.—TERRA COTTA MASK IN BERLIN REPRESENTING A
            COURTESAN IN NEW COMEDY                           _facing_ 212

    FIG. 70.—GROUND PLAN OF THE THEATER AT THORICUS IN ATTICA          227

    FIG. 71.—AUDITORIUM AND ORCHESTRA OF THE THEATER AT
            THORICUS                                          _facing_ 228

    FIG. 72.—HORIZONTAL SECTIONS OF PROSCENIUM COLUMNS AT
            MEGALOPOLIS, ERETRIA, EPIDAURUS, DELOS, AND OROPUS         236

    FIG. 73.—A FOURTH-CENTURY VASE IN MUNICH REPRESENTING THE
            VENGEANCE OF MEDEA                                         237

    FIG. 74.—THE ATHENIAN THEATER OF ABOUT 460 B.C., SHOWING THE
            EARLIER TYPE OF ECCYCLEMA                                  286

    FIG. 75.—WILHELM’S TRANSCRIPTION AND RESTORATION OF TWO
            FRAGMENTS OF THE ATHENIAN FASTI                            320

    FIG. 76_a_.—WILHELM’S TRANSCRIPTION AND RESTORATION OF TWO
            FRAGMENTS OF THE STONE DIDASCALIAE AT ATHENS               322

    FIG. 76_b_.—TRANSLATION OF INSCRIPTION IN FIG. 76_a_               323

    FIG. 77_a_.—A FRAGMENT OF THE ATHENIAN VICTORS’-LIST      _facing_ 324

    FIG. 77_b_.—WILHELM’S TRANSCRIPTION AND RESTORATION OF TWO
            FRAGMENTS OF THE ATHENIAN VICTORS’-LIST           _facing_ 324

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