Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Greece hails ancient theater as exceptional find
Reuters: "Builders stumbled last week across the 2,500-year-old amphitheatre of Acharnes, known from ancient writings to be an important arena for tragedies, comedies and musical contests."
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It's pretty crazy how so many things that people search for year to find are just randomly found by accident. I'm very curious to here what else they discover from this theatre that might help in our understanding of how the Greeks mounted their productions and perhaps find another play if we're lucky enough.
It would be interesting what else about greek theatre we can discover from this one hall because there is still so much that we can learn. I remember Chemmers talking about the possibility of a fly system being used. Maybe this theatre will give us more knowledge into other theatrical advancements which we might not have know the greeks had the capability of having.
this is soo great...its a great find for both archeologists, architects and theatre historians alike...this kind of accidental encounter could hold clues about many of the questions we still have about the ancient greek culture...i wonder what we will discover...and i wonder if anything unexpected will pop up that will alter what we know...its always excititng to hear of things like this because my hope is that we will find some groundbreaking clue. who knows?
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