The wealthiest people had the prime seats, and the less wealthy Greeks filled in everywhere else in the theater. When there was a performance, there was very rarely an empty seat.
The front seats in the ancient Greek theater was reserved for priests and a very few of the most respected citizens. These seats were call prohedria.
Greek theatre did not have woman, modern theatre does have women.
In Greek times, the Priests sat in the center section nearest the Orchestra (dance circle), the festival judges, sat behind them, and the citizens sat according to their families; alien residents sat behind the citizens, and the slaves sat farthest from the stage. In Rome, the wealthiest citizens parked their sedan chairs in the Orchestra, since it was no longer used for choral dancing, and the prices fell as the distance from the stage increased. In Elizabethan Theater, patrons paid a penny for general admission to stand in the yard around the stage, for a few pennies more, they could climb the stairs to sit in the gallery seats.
Greek Theater originaloly celebrated religious festivals that honored Dionysus
it evolved over the centuries from a dancing area in a glade in a forest to a stage with an altar in front of rows of seats in in cities.
The front seats in the ancient Greek theater was reserved for priests and a very few of the most respected citizens. These seats were call prohedria.
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the good greek priests
The place in front of the skene at a Greek Theater.
You watched a film from a seat on the third row from the front of a movie theater.
The front seats were reserved for priests.
They sat at the front when the rich people sat at the back... *@*
the poorest people who payed for the cheapest seats
the front seats are reserved for the priests...especially the seat of honour was reserved for the high priests of Dionysos
the front seats are reserved for the priests...especially the seat of honour was reserved for the high priests of Dionysos
An amphitheater is a theater with tiers of seating around a central viewing area. The prefix "amphi" comes from the Greek meaning "on both sides", to distinguish it from a standard theater, which had seating only on the curved front side.
"βYes, they were at the theater,β replied Jane. βThey sat in the twenty-ninth row.β"