Pompeii : its life and art / tr. into English by Francis W. Kelsey ... with numerous illustrations from original drawings and photographs.

  • August Mau
Date:
1902
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    1764,10 March, 1765; and December, 1791. to February, 1796): Fiorelli, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. i, pt. i, pp. 158-165, pt. 2. pp. 46-63. For the Small Theatre, see also vol. i, pt. 2, pp. 69, 75. Paintings at Pompeii relating to the stage: Helbig, Wandgemalde, nos. 1464-1476; SoGLiAXO, Le pitture murali Campane, nos. 740-752 ; Maass, Affreschi scenici di Pompeii, Ann. dell’ Inst., vol. 53 (1881), pp. 109-159, and Mon. dell' Inst., vol. 11, pi. 30-32. Remains of the Large Theatre: Mazols, Les mines de Pompei, vol. 4, pp. 55-70, pi. 27-34; Fiorelli, Descrizione di Pompei, pp. 352-357; Nissen, Pomp. Studien. pp. 232-253; Overbeck-Mau, Pompeji, pp. 153-176. The tribunals [p. 145] : it is evident from the language of Suetonius (Div. Aug. 44. solis virginibus \’estalibus locum in theatro separatim et contra prae- toris tribunal dedit) that opposite the place set aside for the praetor, which was called tribunal, there was another likewise reserved. In our theatre the two platforms mentioned correspond e.xactly with this arrangement, and there is no other part of the structure to which the word tribnnalia, in the inscrip- tion of the Holconii (p. 148), could properly be applied. We are safe there- fore in calling the platforms tribunals. U^ill painting, s/urioing theatre police seated in niches in front of the stage [p. 146]: found in the casa della fontana grande; described by Helbig, Wandgemalde, no. 1468: figured in Museo Borb., vol. 4, pi. 18, and in WiESELER, Theatergebaude und Denkmaler des Biihnenwesens bei den (iriechen und Rdmern ((hittingen, 1851), pi. i i, 2. A similar figure sitting in a shallow niche has been found on a wall in the eighth region (VTII. ii. 23) ; see Rom. Mitth., vol. 3 (1888), p. 202, no. 12. On the need of police to keep order in Roman theatres, see the references given by Marquardt, Rbm. Staatsverwaltung, vol. 3 (Edit. 2), pp. 541-542; but cf. Kortixg, (ieschichte des griechischen und rdmischen Theaters (Paderborn, 1897), p. 367. Place of stage machinery [p. 147] : Pollux. Onomast. IV. 128. Inscriptions relating to Actius ,-\nicctus [p. 148] : inscription found at Puteoli. C. 1. L. X. 1946; graffiti, C. 1. L. IV. 2155, and Index, p. 233, under Actius and .Anicetus: C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 5395. Assemblies in the theatre [p. 148] : at Tarentum (282 B.C.), App. De rebus Samnit. VH. ii; Dio Cass. Frag. xxix. 5; at Pergamus. Plut. Sulla, II. Cf. Muller. Buhnenalterthiimer, pp. 73-75. Inscriptions found in the theatre [pp. 148-150] : monumental, C. I. L. X. 833-843; painted inscriptions and graffiti, C. I. L. IV. pp. 63. I53~^57- The stage and the orchestra in the Greek and the Roman theatre [p. 150] : Vitr. V. vi-viii. The problem of the stage in the Greek theatre [p. 151] : Doerpfeld and Reisch, Das griechische Theater, Beitrage zur Geschichte des Dionysos- Theaters in Athen und anderer griechischer Theater (Athens and Leipzig, 1896), particularly pp. 341-365; Doerpfeld, Das griechische Theater Vi- truvs. Athen. Mitth., vol. 22 (1897), pp. 439-462 ; vol. 23 (1898), pp. 326- 356. A convenient summary of Doerpfeld’s conclusions and ot the litera-