10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARASCENIUM»
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parascenium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its ...
1 The material and form of this early fifth-century scene building have been
disputed, Bulle claiming that it was a stone structure of the parascenium type (
with flanking pavilions) lying exactly beneath the existing walls (i.e. of the
Lycurgan ...
William Bell Dinsmoor,
1950
2
The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily
R. Ross Holloway. Figure 198 Typical Greek theater, parascenium scene
building with stage. of the scene building. The cavea of this theater, which was
built at the end of the fourth century BC, was fully developed; its seats were cut
into the ...
3
Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction
... parascenium, paraskenion (Gk); 'beside the skene'; architectural projections
one or two storeys high on either side of the stage building (skene, scaena) in a
classical theatre; called versurae in a Roman theatre; Latin form is parascaenium
, ...
Nikolas Davies, Erkki Jokiniemi,
2008
4
Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture
... wall which is entirely above the roof. parascenium A wing-like projection
extending forward, at the ends of the skene, in ancient Greek theatres.
paraskenion Same as parascenium. parastara In Indian architecture, an
entablature. parastas 1.
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Winter evenings at college, a description of the manners ...
The whole scene was divided into the Bronteium, Episcenium, Parascenium,
Proscenium, and Hyposcenium. " The Bronteium was a place beneath the floor,
in which brazen vessels were kept, full of stones and other materials ; and, by
rolling ...
Benjamin Thomas H. Cole,
1829
6
American Journal of Archaeology: The Journal of the ...
At the front of the parascenium on the east there are three of these cuttings, 1.25
m. in length, with spaces of 0.25 m. between them, but on the west parascenium
we find an irregularity. Proceeding from the projection, we find two cuttings of the
...
7
XX Century Architecture
The phase of cleaning and restoration was followed bv the architectonic
resolution of the structure that Grassi adopted to resolve the reconstruction of the
parascenium of the theater. Aware of the impossibility of restoring the ancient
splendor, ...
Matteo Siro Baborsky,
2003
8
The Origin of the Greek Tragic Form: A Study of the Early ...
According to the demands of the plays presented, a pillared proscenium
connecting any pair of corresponding parascenium columns could be erected in
wood. Painted panels were inserted in its intercolumniations, which furnished the
...
9
Universal Technological Dictionary, Or Familiar Explanation ...
... the place at the top for the machines; wupdrruimr, parascenium, the Tiring-
Room, a place behind the scenes, wherein the ' actors dressed and adorned
themselves; fipwruivwr, proce_ nium, the Stage; innimv, hyposcenimn, a partition
under ...
10
Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. ...
The word, according to Littleton, has its rise from pa~ rasch artgarius, q. d. the
space a postman rides from one station, angaria, to another. PARASCENIUM, in
the Grecian and Roman theatres, was a place behind the scenes whither the
actors ...
John Mason Good, Olinthus Gilbert Gregory,
1813