Theatres (34 Subjects)
Scenes from comedy performance (1) and tragedy performance (2).
1. Corinthian columns of entrance to a catacomb at Shaykh Barakat, near Aleppo, Syria. 2. The entrance to the catacomb of a certain Roman soldier, together with funerary stele at Shaykh Barakat. 3. Stele from the Roman theater of Cyrrhus, ancient city near Aleppo. 4. Fragment of relief from Hierapolis.
Plan of the Acropolis of Athens.
1 and 2. View of capital and base of capital from Erechtheion, Athens. 3 and 4. Views of bases of columns from Erechtheion. 5. Ionian capital from Eleusis. 6 and 7. Capital and base of capital from the Theater of Marcellus, Rome. 7 and 9. Capital and base of the capital from the Temple of Portunus, Rome.
The remains of the Roman theater at Sparta.
Doric monuments of Rome: 1. and 2. Column and capital of column from the peristyle of Saint Peter's Basilica. 3. and 4. Column, capital and entablature of the theater of Marcellus.
View of the Roman theater at Myra (today Demre).
View of Carthaea, ancient city on Kea island. In the background the Acropolis of the city. On the left the ancient theater.
View of Gytheio. During the Ottoman rule, the entire city, and not only the islet outside Gytheio, was called Marathonisi.
Mount Taygetus from the ancient theater of Sparta.
Representation of the ancient theater of Syracuse.
View of the ancient theater of Syracuse, in Sicily.
Reconstruction of the ancient theater of Segesta in Sicily.
Reconstruction of the ancient theater of Segesta in Sicily.
Map of Athens. The author notes some of the most important monuments of the city.
Reconstruction of a certain monument, possibly of the Roman Odeon of Athens. This drawing was published in 1672, as a reconstruction of the Amphitheater of Verona. However, the same drawing had been published even earlier, in Hieronymus Mercurialis' "De Arte Gymnastica".
View of the remains of the ancient theater of Erythrae, ancient city in Asia Minor. In the background the island of Chios.
Fig. 1. View of the Hellenistic, theater of Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor. Fig. 2. Lycian tombs and sarcophagi at Fethiye (anc. Telmessos) in Asia Minor.
View of the ancient amphitheater of Taormina, in Sicily.
View of the ancient theater of Syracuse, in Sicily.
View of the ancient theater of Argos.
The theater of Chaeronea.
The ancient theater at Thorikos in Lavrio. In the background Makronisos.
The ancient theater of Epidaurus.
Map of Sicyon, ancient city in Corinthia.
Topographical map of the Asclepeion in Epidaurus.
Title page.
The ancient theatre of Epidaurus.
Ruins of an early Christian basilica built on the site of a Roman temple in Seleucia, Cilicia. In the background, the ancient theatre and the city castle.
Plan of the theatre and stadium at Sikyon.