Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    greatest possible number of persons, and the elevated scaffold- ing of the stage. The building of theatres probably emanated from Athens, but at this period it had already extended 3 over all Greece. The Odeion also, a smaller theatre with an umbrella roof, received its form at Athens, and it is in like 4 manner probable that one of the contemporaries of Phidias first produced at Olympia the ingenious form of the barriers {a<psgig) of a hippodrome. 2. On the theatre at Athens §. 101, Rem. 2. That of Epidaurus, a work of Polyclitus (about 01. 90), was the first in beauty and symme- try ; a portion of the very commodiously built stairs is still remaining. [The seats are still almost entire; the restoration with the stones them- selves removed from their places would be easy.] See Clarke, Travels ii, 11. p. 60. Donaldson, Antiq. of Athens, Suppl. p. 41. pi. 1. The theatre of Syracuse (comp. Houel, T. iii. pi. 187 sqq. Wilkins, Magna Grecia, ch. 2. p. 6. pi. 7. Donaldson, p. 48. pi. 4, 5) [Cavallari in Serradifalco An- tich. di Sicilia iv. tv. 17—22. p. 132] was built by Democopus-MyriUa before Sophron (01. 90). Eustath. ad Od. iii, 68. p. 1457. R. Comp. §. 289. 3. The odeion is pretended to have been built in imitation of the tent of Xerxes, and the roof was said to have consisted of Persian masts, hence also Themistocles instead of Pericles has been caUed the founder (Hirt, Gesch. ii. p. 18). But even Attica furnished at an early period much longer trees than it did afterwards for the roofing of large build- ings. Plato, Critias, p. 111. On the design of an odeion §. 289. 4. On Cleoetas, the son of Aristocles, Bockh, C. I. p. 39, 237. The author, De PMdia i, 13; on his d<ps<ri? Hirt, Gesch. iii. p. 148. It fulfiUed the object of bringing aU the chariots round the Spina at an equal dis- tance from the normal starting-point of the circuits. 1 107. Probably also the art of arching, which was not yet anywhere employed in temples at this period, except perhaps in the Eleusinian Megaron, was already used in the building 2 of these theatres. According to the tradition of the ancients it was invented by Democritus, but he perhaps only im- 3 ported it from Italy (see §. 168) into Greece. The same De- mocritus instituted, together with Anaxagoras, investigations into the perspective design and detailed construction oi the theatrical scene; it was through him, in an especial manner, that a philosophical spirit of inquiry began to beneht the arts. 2 Poseidon in Seneca Ep. 90. Democr. dicitur invenisce fornicem ut lapidum curvatura paulatim inclinatorum medio saxo (key-stone) alh- garetur. Democritus, according to the most probable account, died 01. 94,1, about 90 years old. 3 Vitruv Pr^f. vii. Namque primum Agatharcus (§. 134) Athenis, iEsi^hylo docente tragoediam, sccnam fecit ct do ca comincntanum rch- quit. Ex CO moniti Democr. et Anax. de eadcm rc scnpscrunt, qucmad- Ldum oporteat ad aciem oculorum radiorumquc cxtcnsioncm, ccito