Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 85
showers, thepeople retreated from the theatre. The earliest theatres at Eomewere temporary buildings of wood. A magnificent woodentheatre, built by M. Amilius Scaurus, in his edileship, b. c. 58,is described by Pliny. In 55 b. c, Cn. Pompey built the firststone theatre at Rome, near the Campus… … KOMAN THEATRE. young Marcellus, son of his sister Octavia. Vitruvius is generallyreported to have been the architect of this building, which wouldcontain 30,000 persons. From marks still visible in the largetheatre at Pompeii, the place reserved for each spectator was about13 inches. This theatre…
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