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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Roman theater: Orange, France

The theater of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in Athens was relatively small, compared to the later theaters of the Hellenic and Roman worlds. Here's a Roman theater built in Orange, France, in the 1st century AD:




Those who imagine Facebook is only for contemporary faces are missing some superb images of ancient Rome here, and of ancient Greece here. Some favorites have been shared here.