Theatres (34 Subjects)
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
