The Greek Theatre Cavea: Addenda and Corrigenda

Abstract

The Olympia Stadium. A detailed publication of the German excavations at the Olympia stadium is given by E. Kunze and H. Schleif, III. Olympiabericht (in JdI 1941), 12 ff., pls. 2–5, 9–10. This shows that the Greek καθέδρα well preserved, consisted of a paved area, fenced round, on which wooden seats must have been placed at the time of the festival. This, and not the later extension, is the ‘schlichte Steinpodium’ referred to in BSA XLIII, 159, n.3.