Identifier: museumofclassical00falk (find matches)
Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ght be recreated with a pleasant * Vide Le Antich. della Sicilia, per Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, Duca diSerradifalco, vol. iv, pp. 158-66; Palermo, 1840. f Fazzello (Decad. i, lib. x) determined the site of Acrae to be 7iear Palaz-zolo. Cluverius, taking upon himself to oppose the opinion of Fazzello, esta-blished it where, at this day, is the convent of St. Mary of the Arc ; which, thebetter to sustain his own assumption with the resemblance of the name, hedenominated arbitrarily, of Arcia. But Bonanni (Siracusa Illiistrata, p. 190)refuted his error with the best reasons, and suj)ported the opinion of Fazzello,which is now no longer doubted. \ Diod., in Excerp. ex lib. xxiii, 5 ; ^.vpaKovalwv koI rwv vir uvtwp TroXewf, h.KpwV, K-.T.X. § Plin., H. N., lib. iii. 246 ON THE THEATRE, ODEUM, AND OTHER MONUMENTS prospect, to place the cavea in that cUrection which would aflford the mostdelightful and cheerful landscape. Nor, indeed, could any one desire a better .- ..^-Hu-w^r-^fK^*-^ ^
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fiLE 0E4O ENCLISH HEET Plan of the Theatre and OJeum of Acras.* site than that which the inhabitants of Acrae had selected for their theatre, in-asmuch as it commands the fertile valleys and verdant hills of Acrse ; and themajestic Etna, erecting its crest above the clouds, closes the picture. The theatre is divided by staircases into nine wedges (ctinei), in each ofwhich are comprised twelve rows of seats. There is no doubt, however, thatthe cavea of the Acrensian theatre possessed greater extent; for traces of someseats that are discernible all along, in the plane of the rock which is inclinedfrom the south side, convert the conjecture into certainty. The edifice, ofwhich the internal diameter does not exceed the measure of 635 Sicilian palmi,fpresents no trace of an inclosure ; the smallness of which attests that it was notnecessarily made by chance. Moreover, there exist remains of the pulpitumand proscenium, in the front of which two niches are to be seen. On both sidesof the sce

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