Simpson, F. M. (Frederick Moore), 1855-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 140
on the building.Theatres. Greek theatres are hardly buildings in the true sense of the • In the British Museum catalogue it is stated that the mausoleum consistedof a lofty basement, on which stood an oblong edifice, surrounded by thirty-sixIonic colunms, and surmounted by a pyramid of tweuty-four… … Fig. 63. GREEK ARCHITECTURE. 99 word, as, except round the stage, no portions are raised above theround. The Greeks always chose as sites natural amphitheatn-s,which allowed them to place the seats direct on the sloping ground,the required elevation for the back rows being thus obtained e:pidavrv5…
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