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Theatre |
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Aigeira |
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The estate was constructed ca. 280 B.C. The cavea sculptured in the rock with rows of seats. The diameter of the orchestra was 15m. The theatre had two horizontal pathways (diazoma) that divided the cavea in three sections of seats, the upper, the middle and the lower. The proscenium has a series of pillars in the facade and the scene was rectangular. In the end of the 1st century or the 2nd c. A.D. the scene took the usual roman tall form with arcades for statues .It was holding about 10.000 spectators. In the Medieval years a building was constructed in the area of the scene |
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Public buildings |
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Localisation |
North of the theatre of Aigeira |
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Description |
Five buildings (A-E) were found in 1925. In the D which identified with the temple of Zeus a marble supernatural head of the god was found. The height of the saved piece was 0,87m, the width was 0,50m and the statue must have been three times bigger than one of natural size. |
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Fortifications |
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Localisation |
Aigeira |
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Description |
Not very well saved. Big rectangular stones were used. The width of the walls was 1,50m. |
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Gymnasium |
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Localisation |
Aigeira |
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