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Definition of Proscenia
1. proscenium [n] - See also: proscenium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proscenia
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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