DOI Artikel:
Cushing, William: The Theatre of Thoricus: supplementary report
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.8561#0040
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THE THEATRE OF THORICUS.
which served as the Acropolis, on whose western slope a square tower
about ten feet high still stands. On the south slope is the theatre,
built like the tower of the gray marble of which the hills here consist.
The cavea, unique on account of its odd shape, is preserved, though
the seats are gone."
From Fergusson's History of Architecture in all Countries (1876),
Vol. I. page 215 : —
" The Pelasgic races soon learned to adopt for their doorways the
more pleasing curvilinear form with which they were already familiar
from their interiors [of beehive tombs]. The gateway in Thoricus
shows its simplest and earliest form."
Compare the actual form, Plate II. Fig. 1.
From the Archaeologische Zeitung (1878), page 29, in a report of
the meeting of the Archaeological Society in Berlin, Jan., 187S :—
" Herr Peltz spoke of the antiquities to be seen at Thoricus, sub-
mitting a sketch of the theatre, the diameter of which was fifty-four
metres. He explained its remarkably irregular outline, and referred
to the peculiar construction of the outside wall surrounding the tiers
of seats, — a construction which occurs also in a square tower on the
plain, and which leads to the conclusion that these structures belong
to a very high antiquity. The seats, of which only a few traces are
preserved, follow the natural slope of the hill. Nothing remains of
the stage structure. In the neighborhood of the theatre are scanty
remains of an apparently later marble building, consisting of one
corner of the foundation and four roughly dressed drums without
flutings, eighty-two centimetres in diameter."1
From Baedeker's Griechenland (18S3), page 117 : —
" The ruins are in great part at the foot of the mountain-peak on
its south side. . . . The most important are 'the ruins of the theatre.
. . . The auditorium faces the south, and has an oval form which
is unique of its kind, and was undoubtedly determined by the forma-
tion of the ground here.
1 The lime kiln, shown at the right in Plates V. and VI., must be held
responsible for the total disappearance of these remains.
THE THEATRE OF THORICUS.
which served as the Acropolis, on whose western slope a square tower
about ten feet high still stands. On the south slope is the theatre,
built like the tower of the gray marble of which the hills here consist.
The cavea, unique on account of its odd shape, is preserved, though
the seats are gone."
From Fergusson's History of Architecture in all Countries (1876),
Vol. I. page 215 : —
" The Pelasgic races soon learned to adopt for their doorways the
more pleasing curvilinear form with which they were already familiar
from their interiors [of beehive tombs]. The gateway in Thoricus
shows its simplest and earliest form."
Compare the actual form, Plate II. Fig. 1.
From the Archaeologische Zeitung (1878), page 29, in a report of
the meeting of the Archaeological Society in Berlin, Jan., 187S :—
" Herr Peltz spoke of the antiquities to be seen at Thoricus, sub-
mitting a sketch of the theatre, the diameter of which was fifty-four
metres. He explained its remarkably irregular outline, and referred
to the peculiar construction of the outside wall surrounding the tiers
of seats, — a construction which occurs also in a square tower on the
plain, and which leads to the conclusion that these structures belong
to a very high antiquity. The seats, of which only a few traces are
preserved, follow the natural slope of the hill. Nothing remains of
the stage structure. In the neighborhood of the theatre are scanty
remains of an apparently later marble building, consisting of one
corner of the foundation and four roughly dressed drums without
flutings, eighty-two centimetres in diameter."1
From Baedeker's Griechenland (18S3), page 117 : —
" The ruins are in great part at the foot of the mountain-peak on
its south side. . . . The most important are 'the ruins of the theatre.
. . . The auditorium faces the south, and has an oval form which
is unique of its kind, and was undoubtedly determined by the forma-
tion of the ground here.
1 The lime kiln, shown at the right in Plates V. and VI., must be held
responsible for the total disappearance of these remains.