HISTORY OF GREEK ARCHITECTURE

ARGOS

• Argos, which was a polis of Dorian in BC.8-7c, once had belonged to Mycenae.
  The capacity of the theater was about 20,000 people (10,000 people now).
  The theater has 90 steps (83 steps now) while Delphi's has 35 steps and Epidauros's has 55 steps.
  The sound control is excellent.

  Greek theater normally has not a roof but this theater should have a roof. There is a hole on every 13steps which seems to the hole for pillars to support a roof.

• See DELPHI and EPIDAUROS.

photo: TAKAHIRO TAJI

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