The architecture of the ancient Greek theatre : acts of an international conference at the Danish Institute at Athens 27-30 January 2012 / edited by Rune Frederiksen, Elizabeth R. Gebhard and Alexander Sokolicek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frederiksen, Rune, editor.

Gebhard, Elizabeth R., editor.

Sokolicek, Alexander, editor.

Series:

Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; Volume 17.

Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens ; Volume 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater architecture, Hellenistic--Congresses.

Theater architecture, Hellenistic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2015]

Summary:

In this volume the leading experts on ancient Greek theatre architecture present new excavation results and new analyses of individual monuments. Many well-known theatres such as the one of Dionysos in Athens and others at, for instance, Messene, Sikyon, Chaironeia in Greece and Aphrodisias in Turkey, have been re-examined since their original publication with stunning results. New research also includes less well-known or newly discovered ancient Greek theatres in Albania, Turkey, Cyprus and Sicily. Further studies on the history of research, regional theatrical developments, terminology and function, as well as a perspective on Roman theatres built in Greek traditions make this volume a comprehensive book of new research for specialist scholars as well as for students and the interested public. Fundamental publications on the topic have not been presented for many years, and this book aims to form a new foundation for the study of theatre architecture.

Contents:

Study on Greek theatres : history and prospects / Hans Peter Isler

The wooden theatre of Dionysos Eleuthereus in Athens : old issues, new research / Christina Papastamati-Von Moock

Early Greek theatre architecture : monumentalised Koila before and after the invention of the semicircular design / Rune Frederiksen

Form and function of the earliest Greek theatres / Alexander Sokolicek

The sunken orchestra : its effects on Greek theatre design / Elizabeth R. Gebhard

The Greek vocabulary of theatrical architecture / Jean-Charles Moretti and Christine Mauduit

New studies of the theatre at Iasos : 50 years since the first excavation / Fede Berti, Nicolò Masturzo, with the participation of Manuela Vittori

New investigations in the Ephesian theatre : the Hellenistic skene / Martin Hofbauer

Building the early Hellenistic theatre at Sikyon / Chris Hayward and Yannis Lolos

The theatre of Dodona : new observations on the architecture of the Cavea / Georgios P. Antoniou

The Hellenistic theatre at Corinth : new implications from recent excavations / David Scahill

The theatre at Messene : building phases and masons' marks / Petros Thenelis with a contribution on the mason marks by Kleanthis Sidiropoulos

The Hellenistic theatre in the sanctuary of Hemithea at Kastabos (Asia minor) : new evidence and reconstruction / Christine Wilkening-Aumann

The ancient theatre at Maroneia / Chryssa Karadima, Costas Zambas, Nikos Chatzidakis, Gerasimos Thomas and Eirini Doudoumi

Old and new observations from the theare at Aigeira / Walter Gauss, Rudolfine Smetana, Julia Dorner, Petra Eitinger, Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Manuela Leibetseder and Maria Trapichler

The 'south building' in the main urban sanctuary of Selinunte : a theatral structure? / Clemente Marconi and David Scahill

The theatre at Halikarnassos : and some throughts on the origin of the semicircular Greek theatre. With an appendix "the inscriptions from the theatre at Halikarnassos." / Poul Pedersen and Signe Isager

The Hellenistic phases of the theatre at Nea Paphos Cyprus : the evidence from the Australian excavations / John Richard Green, Craig Barker and Geoff Stennett

The architecture of the Greek theatre of Apollonia in Illyria (Albania) and its transformation in Roman times / Stefan Franz and Valentina Hinz

Boeotian theatres : an overview of the regional architecture / Marco Germani

Architecture and romanization : the transition to Roman forms in Greek theatres of the Augustan age / Valentina di Napoli

Was Dörpfeld right? : Some observations on the development of the raised stage in Asia minor / Arzu Öztürk

The Carian theatre at Aphrodisias : a hybrid building / Nathalie de Chaisemartin

'Traditional' elements in the Roman redesign of the Hellenistic theatre in Patara, Turkey / Katja Piesker

The Hellenistic theatre af Ephesus : results of a recent architectural investigation of the Koilon / Gudrun Styhler-Aydin

Traditional Hellenistic elements in the architecture of ancient theatres in Roman Asia minor / Hans Peter Isler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9788771249965

8771249966

OCLC:

1108541518