caa a22 4500 38804151X CHVBK 20180307125023.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/300802 doi S0075435800044087 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/300802 Goldberg Sander M. University of California, Los Angeles Plautus on the Palatine [Elektronische Daten] [Sander M. Goldberg] It was probably in the agora at Athens and possibly in the seventieth Olympiad (i.e. 499-496 B.C.) that a wooden grandstand collapsed while a play by Pratinas was being performed. The Athenians responded quite sensibly to this disaster by moving their dramatic performances to the precinct of Dionysus Eleuthereus, where the audience could be more safely accommodated on the south slope of the acropolis. Or so it appears: no fact of this early period in ancient theatre history is ever entirely secure. By the time of Aeschylus, however, what we call the Theatre of Dionysus was certainly the place where Athenian tragedies and comedies were performed, and the facility grew in size and grandeur along with the festivals it served. One result of this continuity has been a great boon to the performance-based criticism of Greek drama. Copyright ©Sander M. Goldberg 1998. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 1-20 0075-4358 88<1 1998 88 JRS https://doi.org/10.2307/300802 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/300802 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Goldberg Sander M. University of California, Los Angeles NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 1-20 0075-4358 88<1 1998 88 JRS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge