Roman theater plan - Public domain vintage map

Identifier: illustratedcompa00rich (find matches)
Title: The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Rich, Anthony, 1803 or 1804-1891
Subjects: Classical dictionaries
Publisher: London, Longmans
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tration, which represents the ground-plan of Pompeys theatre at Rome,from the marble map of that city,and shows the portico at the bottommarked in black lines, then thewalls of the scene and stage, and,beyond them, the circular seats forthe spectators, which were enclosedexternally by a wall similar to thatexhibited in the preceding illustra- 654 THEATRUM. tion. The interior was open to thesky, having no roof, and consisted ofthe following essential parts, distri-buted in the manner shown by theannexed illustration, representing theground-plan of the theatre at Hercu- laneum, which is constructed uponthe Roman model. The body of thehouse (cavea) where the spectatorssat, consists of a number of semi-circular rows of seats, formed bydeep steps (gradus) rising in concen-
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O O O ® © © © © ©- trie lines one above the other, whichwere subdivided horizontally intotiers (mceniana), comprising severalrows each, by broad landing-places(prcecinctiones, a A, a a) ; and, verti-cally, into cuneiform compartments(cunei, bbbbb) by a number of stair-cases (scales, aaaaa), down whichthe spectators descended to the rowwhere their respective places weresituated, upon entering the housethrough the open door-ways (vomitoria, bbbbb) at the head of eachstaircase, which were reached bymeans of passages and covered lob-bies constructed in the shell of thebuilding, precisely in the same man-ner as explained and illustrated bythe text and wood-cut s. AmphitheatruMj p. 29. At the bottom of themvea was the orchestra (c), an exact half circle, and answering in use andlocality to our pit, for it containedthe seats appropriated to the magis-trates and persons of distinction; andwas not used, like the Greek orches-tra, for a chorus and musicians. A little in advance of this w

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