1. Theaters Around the World
... was divided by broad concentric belts, named diazomata, which served as lobbies, with eleven rows of seats between each, and these were further divided into wedges by transverse flights of stairs between the lobbies, converging on the centre of the orchestra. The latter resembled the passages in a trireme with its banks of oars, and hence were called selides or gangways. There were eleven subdivisions to each section, suggesting that there ... were as many benches as there were rowers. "Thus Aristophanes bids the audience to rise for a certain actor, give a splash ... ...
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