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Division C: The road immediately east and south of the Acropolis, from the street of Tripods to the shrine of Demeter Chloe
DOI Kapitel:Section XII
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SEC. XII
OF ANCIENT ATHENS
293
citizens about, and uttering her prayer to Zeus Teleios that he
may accomplish her dread purpose, she and the king pass together
into the house.*
Many another instance might be given in which the play gains
almost inconceivably both by the blending of chorus and actors,
and by the entrance of actors from distant lands or with crowded
companies up the broad parodoi instead of through the narrow
stage doors. It would be quite useless for mythological purposes
to follow, step by step, the encroachments of the Roman stage;
FIG. 32.—PLAN OF THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS, SHOWING CIRCULAR ORCHESTRA.
it is enough to note that in the days of Lycurgus there was still
adequate space left for the complete circle of the orchestra,
removed, indeed, farther from the temple of Dionysos and
nearer to the hill slope. Such a circular orchestra with its
stone boundary line is still to be seen at Epidaurus, the plan
of which is given in fig. 32, the view in fig. 33, and it is seated
I should like to say here that I owe this picture of a dramatic representa-
tion in the time of .Dschylus, as well as the whole view of the relation between
orchestra and stage, to a lecture given by Dr. Dbrpfeld in the Athenian
theatre (13th March 1888), and to record my special thanks to him for per-
mission to state to the best of my ability, here as elsewhere, a view as yet
not published in full.
OF ANCIENT ATHENS
293
citizens about, and uttering her prayer to Zeus Teleios that he
may accomplish her dread purpose, she and the king pass together
into the house.*
Many another instance might be given in which the play gains
almost inconceivably both by the blending of chorus and actors,
and by the entrance of actors from distant lands or with crowded
companies up the broad parodoi instead of through the narrow
stage doors. It would be quite useless for mythological purposes
to follow, step by step, the encroachments of the Roman stage;
FIG. 32.—PLAN OF THEATRE OF EPIDAURUS, SHOWING CIRCULAR ORCHESTRA.
it is enough to note that in the days of Lycurgus there was still
adequate space left for the complete circle of the orchestra,
removed, indeed, farther from the temple of Dionysos and
nearer to the hill slope. Such a circular orchestra with its
stone boundary line is still to be seen at Epidaurus, the plan
of which is given in fig. 32, the view in fig. 33, and it is seated
I should like to say here that I owe this picture of a dramatic representa-
tion in the time of .Dschylus, as well as the whole view of the relation between
orchestra and stage, to a lecture given by Dr. Dbrpfeld in the Athenian
theatre (13th March 1888), and to record my special thanks to him for per-
mission to state to the best of my ability, here as elsewhere, a view as yet
not published in full.