Definition, History, Styles, & Facts
Simple Greek scenery was comparable with that of the twentieth century; the impulse to visualize and particularize the background of the action became robust. Painted scenery was in all probability first utilized in manufacturing of the Oresteia; some 50 years afterward a second story was added to the wooden scene structure. A wooden colonnade, or portico, the proskēnion, was placed in entrance of the lower story of the constructing. This colonnade, which was lengthy and…
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