Theater
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
theater · the theater · theatre
in the texts
Against Ctesiphon
Public venue where ambassadors receive seats of honor.
and at daybreak he came escorting the ambassadors into the theater, so that he was actually hissed for his unseemly flattery.
Against Meidias
The venue where spectators at the Dionysia reacted against Meidias.
Those of you who were spectators at the Dionysia hissed and hooted Meidias when he entered the theater;
On the Peace
The Athenian performance space where comic poets speak and imperial displays occur.
But I know that it is hazardous to oppose your views and that, although this is a free government, there exists no ‘freedom of speech’ except that which is enjoyed in this Assembly by the most reckless orators, who care nothing for your welfare, and in the theater by the comic poets.
For so exactly did they gauge the actions by which human beings incur the worst odium that they passed a decree to divide the surplus of the funds derived from the tributes of the allies into talents and to bring it on the stage, when the theatre was full, at the festival of Dionysus;