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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt:...arrange 1 See Bentley, Dissert. on Phal. i. 251. 2 On the form and construction of ancient theatres, see Chandler, Travels, &c, who describes the ruins of the theatre of Teos. i. J10; of Ephesos, 138; of Miletos, (457 feet in length,) 168; of Myos, 191; of Stratonica, 222; of Nysa, built with a blueveined marble, 245; of Laodicea, 262; of..Egina, ii. 16; of Athens, 113; of Eleusis, 215; on the theatre of Syracuse, see Antiq. of Athens, &c. Supplementary to Stuart, by Cockerel, Donaldson, &c. p. 38.--See a plan of the theatre in the grove of Asclepios at Epidauros, pi. 1. p. 53, and another of that of Dramysos, near Joannina, pi. 3.--(Compare on the Dionysiac Theatre, Leake, Topog. of Athens, p. 53, sqq.) ment, and decorations, by the peculiarities of the site, and the science or taste of its architect. The great theatre of Bacchos, partly scooped out of the rock on the face of the hill at the southeastern angle of the Acropolis, stretched forth, on solid piers of masonry, a considerable distance into the plain, and was capable of containing upwards of thirty thousand people. The diameter, accordingly, if it did not exceed, could have fallen little short of five hundred feet.1 For we are not to suppose that, while Sparta,8 and Argos, and Megalopolis, cities comparatively insignificant, possessed theatres of such dimensions, Athens, incomparably the largest and most beautiful of Hellenic capitals, would have been content with one of inferior magnitude.3 To determine accurately the various parts of the theatre, and thus affix a distinct meaning to every term connected with it, has exercised the ingenuity of critics and architects for the last three hundred years, still leaving many difficulties to be overcome. I can scarcely hope in every case to s...