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How Were The Greek and Roman Theaters Designed?
The designs of theatres during the last five-hundred centuries b.c.
varied in many ways of construction and design. The technical advances in
acoustics and construction were enormous. The placement of the seating and
construction of the stage and even sizes of the theatres varied from
theatre to theatre. They varied from open-air to roofed, both colu ....
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.... theatre that was
built into a hillside as many of the theatres of that time were. It was
cut into the slope of the hill and used the natural slope of the hill to
terrace the seating area. The Dionysus used wooden benches which were very
practical because of the ease of construction and they were mobile. The
orchestra was surrounded on the audience side by a stone terrace. It was
approximately eighty-five to eighty-eight feet in diameter which was normal
for that time p ....
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