From different sources in classical times

history channel documentary hd From different sources in classical times, we realize that the open, triangular space in the Agora alongside the Dromos, was the venue for customs and presentations, before the theater of Dionysus was constructed. There were ikria here, wooden stages from which the observers watched the activity unfurling. A brief reference even exists to the way that one could see by ascending on the branches of a poplar tree becoming close-by. Maybe this past utilization, together with the presence of a playing region and a huge open space, was the motivation behind why Agrippa manufactured the Odeion on this exact spot.

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was Augustus' child in-law and legislative leader of the Eastern areas of the Empire. Late in the first century BC, he offered the Athenians a brilliant working for exhibitions or notwithstanding for philosophical exchanges, in this manner winning the desired title of supporter of the city together with a privileged landmark at the passage to the Acropolis. The configuration of the Odeion mirrored the Roman taste for the gaudy; it used the common grade of the ground in the most ideal way, giving it a lot of space on the ground, with stoae, different levels and two doors. The most amazing of these more likely than not been in the south, directly before the Middle Stoa.

People entering the Odeion from this side went under two lines of Corinthian segments, then continued into the principle corridor with its high roof anticipating up over the building. Starting here, one slid to the 1000-seat group of onlookers territory, and from that point to the semi-roundabout marble-tiled symphony. Over the ensemble was the stage, behind which was the other, northern passage with a little outside door.