{"id":218,"date":"2008-11-09T19:12:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T03:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/2008\/11\/syracuse-and-theater.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T17:13:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:16","slug":"syracuse-and-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/2008\/11\/syracuse-and-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse and Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>On Friday, as part of a larger examination of the politics<br \/>\nof theater in both Athens and Syracuse, we visited the impressive theater in<br \/>\nSyracuse. Most of the visible remains date from the renovations of Hieron II in<br \/>\nthe third century BCE:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/TheaterView.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TheaterView.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/TheaterView-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inscriptions naming wedges as belonging to Hieron&#8217;s family<br \/>\ncan still be seen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Phil1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phil1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Phil1-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one names the wedge as &#8220;[The section] of Queen<br \/>\nPhilistis&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Phil2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phil2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Phil2-thumb-240x180.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier incarnations of the theater date back to the first Hieron, and hosted among other things a performance of Aeschylus&#8217; Persians. The cavea echoed once again to the sound of Xerxes rending his robes and his chorus commiserating:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Xerxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Xerxes.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Xerxes-thumb-180x240.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition there is a very interesting quarry, with some<br \/>\nvery fine oranges, the huge altar of Hieron II, and the Roman amphitheater, and<br \/>\nwe also made a quick stop into the papyrus museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> On Friday, as part of a larger examination of the politics of theater in both Athens and Syracuse, we visited the impressive theater in Syracuse. Most of the visible remains date from the renovations of Hieron II in the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/2008\/11\/syracuse-and-theater\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}