Word: proskenion
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ALEXIS SOLOMOS Director Proskenion Theater Athens...
...favor of the united action of actors and chorus on the same orchestral level, but that in none of the Greek theatres of the classical age, of which many have recently been laid open, has a genuine stage been discovered. What has hitherto been identified as a stage-the proskenion-is in fact only a decorative member. The hypothesis which the lecturer urged with Iuminous cogency alone satisfactorily explains the historical development of the Greek theatre and the subsequent evolution of the Roman theatre from that of the Greeks...
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