Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 82
general arrangement was, in their beingconstructed on the slope of a hill. That the seats of the spectatorsmight be more solidly fixed, the side seats rested on strong masonry,which was connected with the stage. The building itself may bedivided in two parts—the kolXov, —in Latin cavea, the part… … < I KEEK THEATKES. one of which separated it from the orchestra, the other formed itsextreme outer limit. The liomans seldom suffered the arc to exceeda semicircle. The Greeks commonly used a larger arc. It wascomposed of a succession of seats, divided into two or more flightsby Sia^wfxara, or…
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