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Placed adjacent to temples of nature and of the fertility god Dionysus, the orchestra was used for dramatic performances, which, together with a procession and sacrifice, composed the annual spring festival of the god. The theatre was first built in the 6th century BCE. Modified and expanded over the centuries, it is the oldest Greek theatre and is the site where some of the most famous Greek plays from antiquity were first performed. Theatre of Dionysus Photographer: Derrick Sugden #Ur Temple Of Dionysus, Roman Theatre Architecture, Ancient Theatre Aesthetic, Greek Antique Furniture, Ancient Greece Theatre, Ancient Greek Plays, Theatre Of Dionysus, Ampitheater Greek, Old Greek Architecture

Placed adjacent to temples of nature and of the fertility god Dionysus, the orchestra was used for dramatic performances, which, together with a procession and sacrifice, composed the annual spring festival of the god. The theatre was first built in the 6th century BCE. Modified and expanded over the centuries, it is the oldest Greek theatre and is the site where some of the most famous Greek plays from antiquity were first performed. Theatre of Dionysus Photographer: Derrick Sugden #Ur

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Ancient Roman Theatre Ancient Roman Theatre can’t easily be categorized as one style or period of theatre. One reason for this is that it starts as a performing art around the 300 BC and ends around 400 AD included a great diversity of forms from street theatre to circus to the comedies of Livius Andronicus and Plautus to the Roman adaptation of Greek stories evident in the comedies of Terence to the ‘comedy of manners’ of Gaius Maecenas Melissus. Ancient Rome probably had its own native…

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