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On a spring day at the beginning of April towards the end of the first half of the fifth century, in the light of the rising sun, the Athenian audience sat in its theatre. Behind, towered the Acropolis; in front and above, the blue sky; to the right stretched the agora, the heart of its polis, Athens; and to the left not far away lay the Themistoklean city wall and the way out of the city.1 Thus in the lap of nature, with the orchestra spread out under their feet, characters such as Prometheus, Agamemnon, Eteocles, and Orestes rose up and performed their tales of the great heroic past, stories that had taken place in strange, far away places: Argos, Thebes, Persia, or the lifeless desert of Scythia.
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Yaari, N. (1995). Anchoring Thebes: Defining Place and Space in Ancient Greek Theatre. In: Zimmerann, B. (eds) Griechisch-römische Komödie und Tragödie. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04216-3_6
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