Cavea
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cavea is a noun meaning The seating section of a Greek or Roman theatre or amphitheatre.
Meaning
The seating section of a Greek or Roman theatre or amphitheatre.
Example Sentences
Vitruvius, in writing that colonnades are desirable above theatres, is thinking of late Asiatic and Roman caveas; […]
As the entrances near the caveas provide access to the theatres, such an additional arrangement seems to have been superfluous.
No rib foundation appears ever to have been designed for subterranean vaulting like that commonly found elsewhere in Roman caveas to support seating.
I have for a long time thought that a symbolic approach, tackling the issue of the correlation between the spatial composition of Greek caveae and the social structure of their communities would yield interesting and, it is hoped, fruitful results.
Word Forms
- caveae
- caveas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include auditorium, orchestra, theatre, theater, seats, top.
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