Archaeological evidence reveals there were nine rows of nine columns in the Odeon of Pericles, and innovative 3D imaging shows 40 percent of the audience would not have been able to see anything.

If you love theater, you may know the Odeon of Pericles, where many classical plays were performed. The Agora in Athens is pretty well known as an ancient marketplace, ...

Richard Beacham’s team in the School of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick designed a virtual reconstruction of the 2400-year-old Odeon of Pericles in Athens.

Pericles of Athens Vincent Azoulay, trans. from the French by Janet Lloyd. Princeton Univ, $35 (296p) ISBN 978-0-691-15459-6 ...