Bema of Phaidros
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 20, 2024 05:14 PM
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History
A speaker's platform erected in the Theater of Dionysus at Athens in the second century CE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/866381505
37.9702552262, 23.7277761412
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Bema of Phaedrus (AD 100 - AD 299) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Bema of Phaidros (English, modern)
- βῆμα θεήτρου Φαῖδρος (Bema theatrou Phaidros: Ancient Greek, AD 100 - AD 199)
- Phaidrosbema im Dionysostheater (German, modern)
- Bema of Phaidros located at Athenae (unspecified date range)
- Bema of Phaidros located in Theater of Dionysus Eleuthereus (30 BC - AD 300)
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platform
Pleiades
A number of Neo-Attic reliefs decorate the platform. The iconographic theme is linked to the life and experiences of Dionysos. The sculpture used to decorate the beam was originally located elsewhere and is re-used in this contect.
Jeffrey Becker, 'Bema of Phaidros: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/866381505> [accessed: 27 April 2024]
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