Word: dorpfeld
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Professor Morgan has just received a letter from Professor John Williams White, who is this year director of the school at Athens. Professor White states that he has been engaged in a debate with Dr. Dorpfeld on the question of the state of the "Pelasgikon" in the age of Pericles...
...passages up or down of the actor as he went up the stairs to the stage from the orchestra or decended to the orchestra from the stage; secondly, on the inferences which it seemed could be drawn from from ruins of Greek theatres. In 1890 Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, the noted authority on Greek antiquities and first secretary of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, published his conclusions, the results of a careful architectural study of the theatre of Dionysius at Athens, which were to the effect that the proscenium which had generally been considered the front wall of the stage...
There has been abundant doubt and consequent discussion as to the date when the theatre was built. The archaeologist, Dorpfeld, recently aroused much controversy by asserting that the great theatre was not erected until the decline of the drama, after the fifth century B. C., but all his arguments have been so satisfactorily answered that the subject is almost as obscure as it ever...