Roman theatre

Photo about View of the ancient roman theater of Palmyra Syria. Image of temple, building, archeology - 12576580

Ancient Theater at Bosra, Syria - built in the second quarter of the 2nd…

The Roman Theatre at Bosra (المسرح الروماني ببصرى‎), is a large Ancient Roman theatre in Bosra, in the district of Dar'a in south-western Syria. The Roman theatre of the early third century CE provides visual evidence of the grandeur of the city in classical antiquity as well as the importance of Bosra throughout the Muslim period. Bosra was once one of the main cities of the powerful Nabatean Kingdom, whose abandoned city of Petra is world-famous.

Bosra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, once the capital of the Roman province of Arabia, was an important stopover on the ancient caravan route to Mecca, a 2nd-century Roman theatre, early Christian ruins and several mosques are found within its walls, and all around local people have used for centuries parts of the ruins to build their own houses © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

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Ancient Roman Theatre Ancient Roman Theatre can’t easily be categorized as one style or period of theatre. One reason for this is that it starts as a performing art around the 300 BC and ends around 400 AD included a great diversity of forms from street theatre to circus to the comedies of Livius Andronicus and Plautus to the Roman adaptation of Greek stories evident in the comedies of Terence to the ‘comedy of manners’ of Gaius Maecenas Melissus. Ancient Rome probably had its own native…

While Amman is a modern city today, its roots go back to Roman times. A well-preserved Roman theatre is located in the… by jpphotography