Fethiye Ampitheatre

[GordonA]

Anyway, I believe that the first full use of the new semi-circley thingammywotsit with shiny seating area , will be that long awaited fairy tale ; " Kerametin Yilmaz Bites The Dust "  !!   

[scorcher]

Oh no she isn't ! 

[JohnF]

If one takes a look at the Amphitheatre in Fethiye, it is blatantly obvious that it has indeed a left wing/side, a right wing/side, meeting toward the rear !!

So you agree its a theatre, and the guy on TA was right?

JF

[Colwyn]

Wikipedia is relatively reliable on issues such as this - despite some sniffy dismissals from folk who want everything to be cited from the original source {no matter the paucity of corroboration of these sources}. This is what it has to say:

"Ancient Greek theatres were built in a semicircle, with tiered seating above a performance area. Ancient Roman amphitheatres were oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium. Modern usage for "amphitheater" is lax, and does not always respect the ancient usage, and so the word can be found describing theatre-style stages with the audience only on one side, theatres in the round, and stadiums."

Despite the inconsistent spelling of theatre, I think this a nicely balanced view and will amend my usage in future. I always suspected that GordonA was lax. Hamlet, of course, is blameless here and not a warmonger.

[scorcher]

Tidy!

[loz]

Well. the guy on T.A. (Trip Advisor, I take it ?) is TOTALLY WRONG. The word Amphitheatre comes , obviously, from the Greek;  Amphi, meaning " "on both sides" , and Theatron, meaning " place for viewing ". Let him stick that in his pipe and smoke it !!  One thing that is never open to argument is the Ancient Greek language, at least not to us scholars of such things !!   

You really are rude.

[Fran]

[Fran]

A few photos taken today from different angles

[Scunner]

Tragic

[hubblebubbles]

I don't care what they call it but truthfully when I first saw the rebuilding of it I was horrified and consider it an appalling waste of a beautiful historic site. Yes it needed cleaning up from visitors rubbish but not this total modernisation. I feel sad and  they have in my opinion ruined it .Called Progress I think.