The Theater of Dionysus The Theater of Dionysus was Europe's first theater, and stood immediately below the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was originally built in the late 5th century B.C. The theater was an outdoor auditorium in the shape of a great semicircle on the slope of the Acropolis, with rows of seats on which about eighteen thousand spectators could comfortably seat. The front rows consisted of marble chairs, and were the only …
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…in religion, as the theater would never have come about if it weren't for the worship of Dionysus by the Athenians. Bibliography 1) Powell, Anton, Ancient Greece. Facts on File, Inc., 1989. 2) Onians, John, Art and Thought in the Hellenistic Age. Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1979. 3) Mills, Dorothy, The Book of the Ancient Greeks. G.P Putnam's Sons, 1977. 4) Skipp, Victor, Out of the Ancient World. Penguin Books, 1967. 5) Erim, Kenan, Aphrodisias, the City of Love. Facts on File Publications, 1986.