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IONIA. 35
PLATE LIX.
VIEW OF A THEATRE AT THE EXTREMITY OF THE SINUS GLAUCUS, NEAR
TO MACRI OR TELMESSUS, IN THE PROVINCE OF LYCIA.
Some architectural details relative to the construction of this edifice, may be seen in the Voyage
de la Grece, par Monsieur de Choiseul.
In that part of Asia Minor which forms the subject of our present inquiry, the number of Theatres
and Gymnasia, their splendour and magnificence must strike every observer. At the same period
that the manly genius of Athens was exerted in bringing to perfection the arts of Painting and
Sculpture, and reducing to a regular system the sciences of Oratory and Philosophy; the softer
climate of Ionia inspired its inhabitants with a taste for the more delicate and refined accomplish-
ments : hence that change of manners, and effeminate style of living, so much lamented by
contemporary poets and historians, which pervaded the empire, and had greatly corrupted Rome
itself. In the neighbourhood of Miletus, at Teos and Lebedus, the first regular institutions for
instruction in Music and Dancing were established, and confirmed by public authority, under
certain rules and regulations, which are frequently alluded to in ancient writers. Many circum-
stances relative to these communities, may be found in the Monumenta Teia, published by
Chishull. The professors of these schools or academies, were styled 01 xs^t rov Aiqvvgov tzkviIoli, or the
artificers in the service of Bacchus. From hence were furnished the several performers on the
Grecian theatre, as well for the chorus, as the orchestra ; and from these parts, and the adjacent
islands, the territory of Graecia Magna, and the more northern provinces under the dominion of
Rome, were provided with seminaries of a similar institution. To the inhabitants of each district
was allotted its separate place of assembly for transacting the common affairs of government, as
well as for shews and entertainments. The assemblies of the people both in Greece and Ionia
were held in the theatre......
Atticis quoque
Quibus theatrum curia fir abet vicem,
JVostris negotiis sua loca sortito data;
Campus comitiis, ut conscriptis curia;
Forum, atque rostra separatis civium,
Una est Athenis, atque in omni Gracid
Ad consulendum publici sedes loci,
Quam in urbe nostra sero luxus condidit.
jEdilis olim scenam tabulatam dabat
PLATE LIX.
VIEW OF A THEATRE AT THE EXTREMITY OF THE SINUS GLAUCUS, NEAR
TO MACRI OR TELMESSUS, IN THE PROVINCE OF LYCIA.
Some architectural details relative to the construction of this edifice, may be seen in the Voyage
de la Grece, par Monsieur de Choiseul.
In that part of Asia Minor which forms the subject of our present inquiry, the number of Theatres
and Gymnasia, their splendour and magnificence must strike every observer. At the same period
that the manly genius of Athens was exerted in bringing to perfection the arts of Painting and
Sculpture, and reducing to a regular system the sciences of Oratory and Philosophy; the softer
climate of Ionia inspired its inhabitants with a taste for the more delicate and refined accomplish-
ments : hence that change of manners, and effeminate style of living, so much lamented by
contemporary poets and historians, which pervaded the empire, and had greatly corrupted Rome
itself. In the neighbourhood of Miletus, at Teos and Lebedus, the first regular institutions for
instruction in Music and Dancing were established, and confirmed by public authority, under
certain rules and regulations, which are frequently alluded to in ancient writers. Many circum-
stances relative to these communities, may be found in the Monumenta Teia, published by
Chishull. The professors of these schools or academies, were styled 01 xs^t rov Aiqvvgov tzkviIoli, or the
artificers in the service of Bacchus. From hence were furnished the several performers on the
Grecian theatre, as well for the chorus, as the orchestra ; and from these parts, and the adjacent
islands, the territory of Graecia Magna, and the more northern provinces under the dominion of
Rome, were provided with seminaries of a similar institution. To the inhabitants of each district
was allotted its separate place of assembly for transacting the common affairs of government, as
well as for shews and entertainments. The assemblies of the people both in Greece and Ionia
were held in the theatre......
Atticis quoque
Quibus theatrum curia fir abet vicem,
JVostris negotiis sua loca sortito data;
Campus comitiis, ut conscriptis curia;
Forum, atque rostra separatis civium,
Una est Athenis, atque in omni Gracid
Ad consulendum publici sedes loci,
Quam in urbe nostra sero luxus condidit.
jEdilis olim scenam tabulatam dabat