Pompeii and Herculaneum

Leisure Activities: THEATRES

Herculaneum…

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/herculaneum_women/

http://sites.google.com/site/ad79eruption/herculaneum-1/theatre

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRIVes0311AerialTheaterOdeon.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRItkwVes03Pompeii.html&usg=__zuRD_GrDacUgAKnZcQFs3CN-Chw=&h=576&w=720&sz=166&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=V8QB_OESCW-_RM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dodeon%2Band%2Blarge%2Btheatre%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2GGLL_en%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1

Vitruvius states…

http://arcanehistory.com/?p=43

Large Theatre…

http://www.vroma.org/images/bonvallet_images/

Summa Cavea

Stage

OrchestraIma Cavea

Stairway

Media Cavea

Raised Platforms

M.M. Holconii Rufus et Celer cryptam, tribunalia, theatrum, s(ua) p(ecunia)

Inscription on the Theatre…

Pompeii, Salvatore Nappo, Weldenfield and Nicholson, 1998, London, Pg. 80

The Odeon…

http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://lh3.ggpht.com/_r32PtMO5dV8/RgU4RcjsfdI/AAAAAAAACLA/0iRni4i9rRw/Amalfi%2BCoast-%2BMarch%2B05%2B036.jpg&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/3-hmYtQ75ekGn0_-ilNDKA&usg=__dMZXJqOkpOnEu9vCmljxUog6p6g=&h=1200&w=1600&sz=19&hl=en&start=93&um=1&tbnid=rQ20Ax4YnqeYoM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dodeon%2Bpompeii%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1R2GGLL_en%26sa%3DN%26start%3D80%26um%3D1

http://web1.netribe.it/pompei/mappa/pano/pano63.html

Decorative Details…

http://www.vroma.org/images/bonvallet_images/index2.html

Masks…

http://www.medi-tours.com/CentralMed/

http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/tag/pompeii/

“Paris, pearl of the stage… Paris, the

sweet darling… the comrades of Paris

Club”.

Graffiti found in Pompeii…

http://arcanehistory.com/?p=43

Bibliography…Internet:-http://www.pompeionline.net/pompeii/theatres.htm, Tiberio Gracco, Domenica, 15.Novembre.2009-http://www.pompeii.org.uk/m.php/museum-large-theatre-pompeii-en-85-m.htm

, Tredy s.a.s.-http://arcanehistory.com/?p=43 -http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/herculaneum_women/, The J. Paul Getty Trust-http://archaeology.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_history_of_herculaneum, Natasha Sheldon, Mar 21, 2009-http://sites.google.com/site/ad79eruption/pompeii/public-buildings/large-theatre

-http://www.vroma.org/images/bonvallet_images/, Susan Bonvallet-http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/07/22/theatre-masks-rediscovered/, rogueclassicist, 2009 July 22 - http://web1.netribe.it/pompei/mappa/pano/pano63.html

Books:-Secrets of Vesuvius Unlocking the Sources from Pompeii and Herculaneum, Kaye Cameron and Jennifer Lawless, Thomson Nelson,2006, Melbourne-Pompeii and Herculaneum Interpreting the Evidence, Brian Brennan and Estelle Lazer, Ancient History Seminars, 2005, Australia-Lost Civilizations “Pompeii the Vanished City”, Editors of Time-Life Books, 1992, Time Life Books, USA, Pg. 56-59-Pompeii, Salvatore Nappo, Weldenfield and Nicholson, 1998, London, Pg.80-87-Pompeii Unearthing Ancient Worlds, Liz Sonneborn, Twenty First Century Books, 2008, USA- Pompeii. The Day a City Was Buried, Melanie and Christopher Rice, Darling Kindersley, London, 1998, Pg. 40-41