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Location:
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- Near modern
Selçuk, Turkey
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Theatre
Type:
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Greco-Roman
Theatre
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Date of
Construction:
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- ca.
200 BC
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Renovation
Dates:
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- 125-100 BC. -
scene building with thyromata, Greek
- 40-55 AD. -
stage renovations, Claudius,
- 66 AD. -
columnar scaenae frons, Nero,
- 87-92 AD. -
Roman podium, scaenae, enclosed parodoi, cavea
enlarged, analemmats added,
- 140-144 AD. -
proscaenium enlarged, Roman
- 210 AD. - third
order of scaenae frons completed.
- Late 3rd c. -
orchestra becomes a kolymbethra,
- 359-408 AD. -
earthquakes reconstructions,
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Excavations:
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1869, 1895-1913,
post-WWI to the present day (Austrian)
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Dimensions:
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- Cavea
width: 142 m.;Orchestra:
width 25.8 m.;
- stage
width 25.4 m.; stage depth 5.56 m.
- 67
Rows of seating : ima cavea, 24 rows,11 cuni;
- media,
22 rows, 22 cuni; summa, 21 rows, 22
cuni.
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Seating
Capacity:
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17,000-25,000
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Architectural
Drawings:
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Plan
View
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The ancient city of Ephesus
is located outside the modern city of Selçuk on the
Mediterranean coast of present-day Turkey. Although the
region was settled as early as 5000 BC, the city whose ruins
we see today dates from 300 BC and is the product of
Hellenistic city planning and Roman renovations.
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- Copyright © 2003
Thomas
G. Hines,
Department of Theatre, Whitman
College. All
Rights Reserved.
- The Ancient Theatre
Archive is a non-profit, educational project, located
at Whitman College, USA. Research
and Publication Partially Funded Through Grants from
Whitman College, The United States Institute for
Theatre Technology, and The National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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