{"id":4540,"date":"2017-02-10T11:49:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T11:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:48:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T09:48:45","slug":"the-theatre-of-epidaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/cities\/epidaurus\/the-theatre-of-epidaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Theatre of Epidaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was built on the slope of the mountain northeast from the <strong>Sanctuary of Asklepios, <\/strong>god of Medicine, and it became famous since that time for being the<strong> prettiest of all the Greek theatres<\/strong>, known also for its almost<strong> perfect acoustics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The circular orchestra has a centre<strong> altar of Dionysus<\/strong>. The cavea has the shape of a fan, with <strong>34 rows of setas, divided into 12 sectors by stairs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/1200px-Theatre_of_Epidaurus_OLC-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Photo credits by <a class=\"linkHighlight\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ATheatre_of_Epidaurus_OLC.jpg\" target=\"_new\">Olecorre<\/a> under CC-BY-SA 3.0<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the semicircular corridor<strong> (diazoma)<\/strong>, at a later period, there were added 21 new rows of seats: the cavea has a<strong> capacity of 20,000 spectators.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>first and the last row<\/strong> of the lower part and the first of the upper part had seats with backs and these seats <strong>were reserved for distinguished citizens<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-cta\">\n<div class=\"book-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/LIB-GRECART-ING-1.png\" alt=\"Athens Guidebook\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Do you want to know more about <strong>Epidaurus<\/strong> and the history of\u00a0<strong>Greece?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out our <a href=\"\/en\/guidebooks\/ancient-greece\/\" target=\"_blank\">guidebook to Ancient Greece<\/a>, with detailed history and <strong>Past &amp; Present images of the Acropolis<\/strong>, the <strong>Parthenon<\/strong>, <strong>Epidaurus<\/strong> and all the greatest historical and archaeological sites of Ancient Greece.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vai-alla-guida\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"\/en\/guidebooks\/ancient-greece\/\">Check out our Guide Book to Ancient Greece<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vai-alla-guida\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"vai-alla-guida\">How to get to the The Theatre of Epidaurus<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was built on the slope of the mountain northeast from the Sanctuary of Asklepios, god of Medicine, and it became famous since that time for being the prettiest of all the Greek theatres, known also for its almost perfect acoustics. The circular orchestra has a centre altar of Dionysus. The cavea has the shape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[183,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionpubl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}