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An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)

Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 93

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172. The most ancient theatres of Greece \\ere constructed in a temporary manner; butthe little security from accident tliey afforded to a large concourse of persons soon made theGreeks more cautious for their seciarity, and led to edifices of stone, which, in the end, ex- HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.… … O /|V:-n ^T—\ o ciivea. The scena was at first merely a partition for the actors reachinj^ quite across thestage, dressed with boiiglis and leaves, but in after times was very dillerently and moreexpensively constructed. It had three jirincipal gates, two on the sides and one in thecentre; at…

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