odeum
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
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 Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
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
In its general form and arrangements the odeum was very similar to the theatre.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
The odeum was much smaller than the theatre, and it was roofed over.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
There were odea also in Rome; one was built by Domitian, and a second by Trajan.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
There were odea in several of the towns of Greece, in Corinth, Patræ, and at Smyrna, Ephesus and other places of Asia Minor.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
