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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Segesta, Sicily, Italyen_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 100 BCE (creation)en_US
dc.creatorunknown (Greek (ancient))en_US
dc.date-100en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-27T15:37:36Z
dc.date.available2013-03-27T15:37:36Z
dc.date.issued-100en_US
dc.identifier202568en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1223en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/110523
dc.descriptionView along path at the top of the seating, looking west; Segesta is a town in western Sicily, about 17 km from Castellammare, that flourished 600-400 BCE. It was inhabited by the Elymi, a native people strongly influenced by Greek culture; Segesta came under Carthaginian rule in 409 BCE and then from ca. 260 BCE under Roman rule. The theatre, on the hilltop within the walls, was probably constructed for local Phlyax farces ca. 100 BCE. The auditorium is in the shape of a horseshoe, as in Greek theatres, but the scaenae frons (stage building), with engaged Doric and Ionic columns in two storeys, and perhaps also a pediment, anticipates Roman forms. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 2/3/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectPerforming artsen_US
dc.subjectRoman Empireen_US
dc.subjectGreek (ancient)en_US
dc.subjectGreco-Romanen_US
dc.titleSegesta: Theateren_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A3-G-SG-TH-C5en_US
vra.culturalContextGreek (ancient)en_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeexcavation (site)en_US
vra.worktypetheater (building)en_US
dc.contributor.displayunknown (Greek (ancient))en_US


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