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Essay Galaxy - The Theater of Dionysus
The Theater of Dionysus
The Theater of Dionysus was Europe's first theater, and stood immediately below
the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was originally built in the late 5th
century B.C. The theater was an outdoor auditorium in the shape of a great
semicircle on the slope of the Acropolis, with rows of seats on which about
eighteen thousand spectators could comfortably seat. The front rows consisted of
marble chairs, and were the only seats in the theater that had a back support.
The priests of Dionysus and the chief magistrates of Athens reserved these rows.
Priests claimed 50 of the 67 front row seats, then came the officials, the
guests of honor, then finally the ordinary citizens of Athens. Beyond the front
row, stood a circular space called the orchestra where the Chorus would sing and
dance, and in the center of which stoo....
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