CLAS 21405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Ancient Olympic Games, Ludi, Capitoline Hill
25 Sep 2017
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Ostia has a theater as well, although it was constructed later than pompeii"s, in the late first century bc, by augustus" general and friend agrippa. It stands some distance east of the forum on the decumanus not far from the eastern gate of the city. The theater building itself had two major components the stage (scaena: the stage was a long, rectangular platform. Forum boarium in rome still preserves a substantial part of the two-tiered external fa ade of the cavea. The semicircular space between the first row of the cavea and the stage was called the orchestra. In greek theaters, this was where the chorus would perform while the action took place on-stage. In a roman theater, however, it was reserved for elite spectators: not only did it give the best view of the play, but also made these particular audience members more visible to those in attendance.
