The Theatre at Morgantina (modern Serra Orlando, Sicily, Italy)
	Commentary Photos / Panorama Movies Map Location: Modern Serra Orlando, Sicily, Italy Theatre Type: Hellenistic Theatre Date of Construction: 325. BCE Renovation Dates: Earliest date: ca 325 BCE with renovatons ca. 300 BCE; Morgantina destroyed: 211BCE. GPS Coordinates:: 37.43003, 14.47943 Dimensions: Cavea Width: 57.5 meters Orchestra Diameter:14.4 meters Seating Capacity: 2000 -3000 Architectural Drawings: Plan View The Hellenistic theater of Morgantina was constructed toward the middle of the third century BCE, on the site of an earlier and more modest structure of the same function. The existing theater is part of an ambitious unitary project of the embellishment of the agorà. The koilon or cavea, constructed in roughly squared blocks of local limestone, has a maximum diameter of m 57.7. and is divided horizontally in two parts: below, the ima cavea composed of sixteen rows of seats, and above, the summa cavea, an earthen embankment which was never furnished with stone seats (except for four straight seats behind the fourth sector). The ima cavea is divided into six kerkides or wedge-shaped sections, by seven klimakes or rows of steps, two of which are placed next to the analemmata. More...
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