Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Greek Theatre. Lecture 2. Professor John Williams White. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...Greek C-Mass...
...very large audience assembled in the lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon to listen to Professor J. W. White's lecture on the Greek stage. Professor White said that of all the monuments of ancient Athens which have survived the ravages of time none is more interesting than the theatre of Dionysus. For many years the site of this theatre was not known. The greatest share of the credit of its discovery and subse quent excavation is due to the Germans. The theatre is at the southeastern extremity of the Acropolis. It was constructed on the plan...
...cannot make a comparison between the modern and Greek theatre. The Greeks went to the theatre in the morning and stayed all day. The theatre was only open for three days in the spring, on the occasion of the Dionysias festival. It was a religious duty for the people to attend at this time, as it was a period of utter abandonment to pleasure...
...Greek drama always preserved the unities. This part of the lecture, which treated of the drama, the manner of preserving it, and the equipments of the theatre, was especially interesting. In closing, various views of the masks used in the Greek theatre were shown in anticipation of the next lecture, which will treat of the costuming, among other subjects...