[144] p. 4.
[145] Chap. VI.
[146] 1455b.
[147] 1452a.
[148] 1450b.
[149] Plato (Symposium, 175 E) makes Socrates congratulate Agathon on his success in the presence of “more than 30,000 Greeks”. Modern archæologists, by statistics based on the seating-accommodation, would reduce this figure to 17,000.
[150] There are fourteen of these at Athens.
[151] This account is based on Dörpfeld (Das griechische Theater, Abschnitt VII) who believes there was no stage, and on Haigh (Attic Theatre³, edited by Mr. Pickard-Cambridge, Chap. III) who believes there was a stage.
[152] That is, shorter, viewed from left to right by the spectators. The depth of the Vitruvian stage was 10 feet.
[153] Vitruvius V, vii, 3-4.