Definition of Proscenia

1. Noun. (plural of proscenium) ¹

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Definition of Proscenia

1. proscenium [n] - See also: proscenium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Proscenia

prosaicality
prosaically
prosaicalness
prosaicism
prosaicisms
prosaicness
prosaism
prosaisms
prosaist
prosaists
prosal
prosateur
prosateurs
prosauropod
prosauropods
proscenia (current term)
proscenium
proscenium arch
proscenium arches
proscenium wall
prosceniums
proscience
prosciuto
prosciutti
prosciutto
prosciuttos
proscolex
proscolices
proscribable
proscribe

Literary usage of Proscenia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1898)
"But in most of the proscenia discovered there is only one door. In two of the proscenia, those at Megalopolis and Thespiae, there is no door of any kind. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"On the other hand, they would have been found peculiarly convenient when the old wooden proscenia, with painted hangings, were replaced by stone proscenia ..."

3. The Attic Theatre: A Description of the Stage and Theatre of the Athenians by Arthur Elam Haigh (1907)
"In two of the proscenia, those at Megalopolis and Thespiae, there is no door of ... These Hellenistic proscenia, as we see from the remains, consisted of an ..."

4. A Manual of Greek Antiquities by Percy Gardner, Frank Byron Jevons (1895)
"Now, as wood perishes so easily, the absence of wooden proscenia from the remains would be no argument against their having once existed. ..."

5. A Manual of Greek Antiquities by Percy Gardner, Frank Byron Jevons (1895)
"Now, as wood perishes so easily, the absence of wooden proscenia from the remains would be no argument against their having once existed. ..."

6. The Elizabethan Playhouse, and Other Studies by William John Lawrence (1912)
"How closely the ornate proscenia of the Stuart masques approximated to the earlier Italian method can be seen by examining the details in the Tethys ..."

7. The Greek Theater and Its Drama by Roy Caston Flickinger (1922)
"Consequently Fiechter says nothing about it. In general, the Hellenistic proscenia were higher than the Graeco-Roman stages. ..."

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