odeum

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In its general form and arrangements the odeum was very similar to the theatre.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Some way down the slope of the hill, between the cave-temple and the ravine of the Inopus, is a terrace with the temples of the foreign gods, Isis and Serapis, and a small odeum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Besides many temples, a theatre for music, called an odeum, was built, and Pericles introduced into the Panathenaic festival a contest in music held in this place.

From Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

They stepped in; there reared itself around them a holy, simple, free world-structure with its heavenly arches soaring and striving upward, an odeum of the tones of the sphere-music, a world in the world!

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

Between the precinct and the theatre was a large gymnasium, which was in later times converted to other purposes, a small odeum being built in the middle of it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various