The Greek theater and its drama

by Roy C. Flickinger

[202] Cf. Athenische Mittheilungen, XXVIII (1903), 418 ff.

[203] Robert would emend the text so that the statement would explain the proscenium instead of the hyposcenium; cf. Hermes, XXXII (1897), 448. In that case ὑπό must mean “behind,” a possible meaning, and Pollux would be speaking of the proscenium in a theater with a stage. Pollux includes the proscenium in his catalogue of theater parts (see [pp. 97 f.], above), but does not define it.

[204] Cf. Plutarch Life of Lycurgus, c. vi, and Flickinger, Plutarch as a Source of Information on the Greek Theater (1904), p. 52.

[205] Cf. Plutarch Life of Demetrius, c. xxxiv.

[206] Cf. Plutarch Praecepta Gerendae Reipublicae 823B, and see [p. 59, n. 1], above.

[207] Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Aratus, c. xxiii: ἐπιστήσας δὲ ταῖς παρόδοις τοὺς Ἀχαιοὺς αὐτὸς ἀπὸ τῆς σκηνῆς εἰς τὸ μέσον προῆλθε. For other interpretations, cf. Robert, Hermes, XXXII (1897), 448 ff.; Müller, Philologus, Supplementband, VII (1899), 52 f. and 90 f.; Dörpfeld, Athenische Mittheilungen, XXVIII (1903), 421 ff., etc.

[208] A convenient chronological table of the extant theaters is given by Fiechter, op. cit., pp. 24-27.

[209] Fig. 46 is taken from Dörpfeld-Reisch, Das griechische Theater, Fig. 50. Figs. 47-52 are from photographs by Dr. A. S. Cooley.

[210] Figs. 53-54 are redrawn from Dörpfeld-Reisch, Das griechische Theater, Figs. 44-45, respectively; Fig. 55 is from a photograph by Dr. A. S. Cooley.

[211] Cf. Pollux Onomasticon iv, § 132: αἱ Χαρώνιοι κλίμακες.