Ancient Art and Its Remains; Or, a Manual of the Archaeology of Art (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...46. pL 3). In Asia Minor, especially Assos, Ephesus (660 feet), Miletus, Lindus, Stratonicea, Jassus, Patara, Telmissus, Cisthene, Antiphellus, Myra, Limyra, Side (best preserved), that at Aspendos still more perfect according to Texier, Hierapolis, Laodicea (where there is much of the scene preserved, Ion. Antiq. ii. pi. 50), Sagalassus (to which the same remark applies, Arundel, Visit, p. 148), Anemurion, Selinus in Cilicia. Leake, Asia Minor, p. 320 sqq. That at Aphrodisias, Ion. Antiq. iii. ch. 3. pi. 4 sqq. at Cnidos ch. 1. the upper pi. 3. 24 sq. the lower pi. 22 sq. 32. In Syria, especially the theatres of Gerasa, one with open scene consisting of columns, one with closed. Buckingham, Trav. in Palest, p. 362. 386. In Sicily, Syracuse ( . 106. B. 2), Tauromenium, Catana, Hiinera, Egesta (Hittorff, pi. 7--9). That at Egesta Bull. 1833. p. 169. Theatre and Odeon of Catania, Serradifalco T. V. tv. 1--6., that of Tauromenium ibid. tv. 20--25., of Tyndaris tv. 31. In Etruria, . 170. B. 1. The great number of these ruins, and the completeness of many of them, encourage the hope that we shall yet obtain, after the recent labours of Groddeck, Genelli, Kanngiesser, Meineke, Stieglitz, Hirt, Donaldson, Cockerell, and the editors of Vitruvius, a representation of the ancient theatre founded on a complete architectonic availment of the materials. Stieglitz makes a distinction between pulpitum and proscenium, Beitr. S. 174. The difference between the theatres in Asia Minor as well as that of Syracuse, in which the seats end in obtuse angles, and those existing in Greece with seats cut away at right angles, is remarkable. J. H. Strack Das altgr. Theater, Potsdam 1843. fol. Many indications in F. G. Welcker's Griech. Trag. S. 925. 1295 ff. The Roman theat...