How To Use Amphitheater In A Sentence

The cup-marked stone shown below, in the Sma’ Glen, near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, is situated in a large man-made concave-shaped amphitheatre in the hills, and has a prominent dumb-bell shaped cup-mark on its surface.
A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
In the center of town was a stage and amphitheater which last night held the town's large orchestra and a glee club.
Presiding over the amphitheatre was a beast-headed god, his head half turned away. Henry’s Demons
Many Roman traditions and institutions also disappeared or simply became redundant in the process, not least the arenas and amphitheatres for the circuses and games once supported by the state and municipal authorities.

Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before.
This is one of the few amphitheatres that was used for both Roman political rallying and brutal gladiatorial sports – but tonight it is to host a dance competition.
A good museum in the castle is stuffed with antiquities, while a Roman amphitheatre overlooks all.
A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
There are abandoned temples, coliseums, amphitheaters, ruins of old, ruined Greek-Roman fortresses - there are even alleyways of destroyed ancient cities.
Thomas Kellaway felt very small and timid as he passed between the tall columns outside the amphitheatre. Burning Bright
In thirteen weeks the builders demolished the old gallery and amphitheatre, and constructed a new large amphitheatre with 600 seats instead of benches. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
An amphitheater with crescentic tumuli as seatings, by Hargreaves Associates. Archive 2008-03-01
That must be the oval unroofed amphitheater in Rome. It was basically a stadium with comprehensive functions.
It sits in a natural amphitheatre in a dip in the surrounding fells. The Sun
Telling Verus' story takes viewers into his world, showing how gladiators really fought and trained and how the greatest amphitheatre of all was built.
Chester also had the usual components of a legionary fortress, including a headquarters building (principia), smart houses for the commander (praetorium) and senior officers, amphitheatre, stone defensive walls and a main baths building (thermae), not to mention a large harbour and a bridge crossing the River Dee. Archive 2009-06-01
Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du Château de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra. Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011
The officers of the amphitheatre were still employed in the task of fixing the vast awning (or _velaria_) which covered the whole, and which luxurious invention the Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
At the top beneath the castle is a tiny ancient amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
I climbed over massive flat pavements of grey silty sandstone, making the whole cliffside seem like the world's largest amphitheatre.
The congress venue was a big, boxshaped convention centre by the sea known as the Kursaal, the kernel of which is a large amphitheatre used by symphony orchestras.
But what makes this most compelling is the perfect view of the whole curve of that ancient amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
The remains of a small amphitheatre and three rectangular enclosures, possibly Roman, can be seen in fields beside the road.
There is also a large open-air amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
The cup-marked stone shown below, in the Sma’ Glen, near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, is situated in a large man-made concave-shaped amphitheatre in the hills, and has a prominent dumb-bell shaped cup-mark on its surface.
The money will go towards the school's planned amphitheatre and other drama activities.
It also features a walled kitchen garden and an amphitheatre for open-air performances in the summer. Times, Sunday Times
What did disappear for good were those public spaces that had played such an important role in the civic life of a Roman city: forum, baths, circus, theatres, amphitheatres, and, above all, places of pagan cult.
What did disappear for good were those public spaces that had played such an important role in the civic life of a Roman city: forum, baths, circus, theatres, amphitheatres, and, above all, places of pagan cult.
My name in torchlights at the Dionysia Amphitheater. Artemis the Brave
Keeping carefully out of sight, I followed the crest along for a couple of miles to a natural amphitheatre in the hills, where the little river raced down out of a gorge and stopped for breath in a large and placid rock-bound pool. MOON-FACE
Now in its second year, this populist blend of music and dance brings the finest artists in the Rocky Mountain region to the Arvada amphitheatre. Tracy Shaffer: Arvada Alive With Music
The star of the new play in the Dionysia Amphitheater—the biggest theater in all of Greece—has gotten a bad case of catarrh! Artemis the Brave
Introductory courses are delivered in the form of lectures and are generally held in amphitheatres with 600-800 places.
Nothing to do but pull on a thick balaclava, grab the sled, and go steaming up the hill to the top of what we call the amphitheatre, in the field opposite the main house. Via Negativa
It began when he attended an anatomy lecture in an amphitheater - presumably in the building now called Logan Hall - and made the mistake of sitting in a row traditionally reserved for upperclassmen.
Introductory courses are delivered in the form of lectures and are generally held in amphitheatres with 600-800 places.
After Hardwar the valleys would occasionally widen into a great green opera of cultivation terraces, falling away like the tiers of a Greek amphitheatre into the convex bowl of the mountainside.
Perhaps Bertie might consider an amphitheatre for the orchestra, after he has built the bowl, of course.
I walked into the amphitheatre bar and the barman greeted me.
Circuses have come a long way, since they gained popularity during the ancient Roman Empire, when amphitheatres were the only source of entertainment to citizens.
The majority of the Amphitheater School District governing board reeks with corruption, arrogance, conflicts of interest and blatant stonewalling.
Ever since the 3000-seat amphitheatre was excavated to reveal room for 8000, archaeologists are continually surprised by what they find.
The self-sufficient campus has a post office, a farm, athletic fields, chapel and amphitheater.
The thirty-staired Seats, all round our Amphitheatre, get instantaneously slated with mere umbrellas, fallacious when so thick set: our antique Cassolettes become Water-pots; their incense-smoke gone hissing, in a whiff of muddy vapour. The French Revolution
As it was another pleasant, starlit evening, her hair hung loose to dry in the ocean-scented breeze and she took a roundabout route to the amphitheater.
In puzzlement she watched as Vandune passed through a niche in the amphitheater wall and disappeared into an alcove. MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
In puzzlement she watched as Vandune passed through a niche in the amphitheater wall and disappeared into an alcove. MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
We passed through the blue-caverned space, crossed the narrow arch that spanned the rushing sea stream, and, ascending, stood again upon the ivoried pave at the foot of the frowning, towering amphitheatre of jet. The Moon Pool
The city boasts museums, art galleries and a Roman amphitheatre still used for summer concerts. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, the first great modern neuroanatomists were doing forbidden human dissections at the new, secret amphitheater at the University of Padua medical school.
A massive open-air amphitheater is a permanent fixture on the side of the Fortín hill which overlooks the north west quadrant of the city. Oaxaca, Mexico: a day in one of the New World's finest cities
Vestiges of a street plan can sometimes be seen on ploughed land north-east of the amphitheatre.
I look at this place and think, ‘jeez, from the perfect acoustics and sightlines of the Roman amphitheaters, it's all been downhill from there.’
Vomitoria - the term for entrances leading to the tiers of seats in a Roman amphitheatre - stand on either side of the stage.
A life-size bronze arm of a Roman statue has been excavated from a rubbish-filled ditch or watercourse in the City of London, just south of the Roman amphitheatre.
A section of boxes climbs from the stage, then rows of benches rise high up the slope of the fan-shaped amphitheater.
Nearby is a vast Roman amphitheatre for gladiatorial conflicts, mock sea-battles, and the killing of wild animals captured in nearby Africa.
The parkade will become a pseudo-amphitheatre with audience members sitting above the stage on seats provided by the company, or on their own lawn chairs if they choose.
When the curtain rose next Grace entered alone to begin her first solo, the King of Thule, filling the amphitheatre with her pure seraphic voice.
The place has an amphitheatre, a dance studio, and a restaurant serving Goan food.
As Buttons and Dick wished to stroll further among the houses, the other three waited for them in the amphitheatre, where the Senator beguiled the time by giving his "idee" of an ancient show. The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX
After Hardwar the valleys would occasionally widen into a great green opera of cultivation terraces, falling away like the tiers of a Greek amphitheatre into the convex bowl of the mountainside.
These include a palisaded enclosure, a possible pagan temple, and what appears to be part of a Roman amphitheatre.
And at the other end I found a new-looking amphitheatre of sloping grass and concrete covered by a big tensile roof, in which a band was playing and hundreds of people were milling around.
Fourth, look at the Romans' idea of a general get-together - those amphitheatres where you could enjoy watching animals being tormented and humans murdered.
Its spa is set in the ruins of an ancient amphitheatre. The Sun
It began when he attended an anatomy lecture in an amphitheater - presumably in the building now called Logan Hall - and made the mistake of sitting in a row traditionally reserved for upperclassmen.
As in a Greek amphitheatre, the effect is of considerable height and unavoidable focus. The Times Literary Supplement
Beer followed pizza and we looked round the Roman amphitheatre which had been built by Roman legionnaires 1,800 years before.
The majority of the Amphitheater School District governing board reeks with corruption, arrogance, conflicts of interest and blatant stonewalling.
Above the combats of the amphitheatre floated for the first time the awning of silk, the immense velarium of a thousand colors, woven from the rarest and richest products of the East, to protect the people from the sun General History for Colleges and High Schools
I had not been five minutes in slumber ere the whole amphitheatre was restored to its original perfection, its ruins half rebuilt, its arches, steps, its galleries and vomitories, all complete. Rome in the First and Nineteenth Centuries
The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater.
Pompeii was a walled town with an amphitheatre, forum, basilica, several public baths, two theatres, and at least nine temples.
The congress venue was a big, boxshaped convention centre by the sea known as the Kursaal, the kernel of which is a large amphitheatre used by symphony orchestras.
For twenty-five cents I have seen a man at the circus do something more wonderful, -- make a very living bay horse dance a redowa round the amphitheatre on his (it occurs to me that _hind-legs_ is indelicate) posterior extremities to the wayward music of an out-of-town (_Scotice_, out-o'-toon) band. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
Gone now were the buffoon tricks which the daughter of Acacius the bearward had learned in the amphitheatre; gone too was the light charm of the wanton, and what was left was the worthy mate of a great king, the measured dignity of one who was every inch an empress. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales
It was from the people gathered on the rim of this amphitheatre in the dunes that the sighing came.
The area which used to be the service yard for Tesco would be transformed into a riverside arena, resembling an amphitheatre.
These were designed for public performances - gladiatorial contests and other spectacles in the amphitheatres, plays and mimes in the theatres - and were accessible to all classes of Roman society.
Eventually there were well over 250 amphitheatres in the Roman empire - so it is no surprise that the amphitheatre and its associated shows are the quintessential symbols of Roman culture.
It ended, in fact, on the day of graduation for the Fall term, and forced the ceremonies from the outdoor amphitheater with scenic backdrop into the cafeteria, which had memories of its own.
Its spa is set in the ruins of an ancient amphitheatre. The Sun
We were even courageous in front of an amphitheatre crowded with excited leftists.
The money will go towards the school's planned amphitheatre and other drama activities.
The ground rose about the chungke-yard like the walls of an amphitheatre, on every side save the slope toward the "beloved square" and the river, furnishing an ideal position of vantage for spectators were they even more numerous than the hundreds of Cherokees of all ages that had gathered on the steep acclivities to overlook the game -- some ranged on the terrace or turfy ridge around the chungke-yard, formed by the earth thrown out when the depressed area was delved down long ago, others disposed beneath the spreading trees, others still, precariously perched on clifty promontories beetling out from the sharp ascent. The Frontiersmen
The rough amphitheater below us was also fire-furnished, self-illumed, facing the black block at the end of everything, no wall behind it, but the open emptiness of the Pit and its singularity whence all things came. Prince of Chaos
Pompeii was a walled town with an amphitheatre, forum, basilica, several public baths, two theatres, and at least nine temples.
And Arjuna the accomplisher of inconceivable feats, having won Draupadi by his success in the amphitheatre, was saluted with reverence by all the Brahmanas. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
He took part in gladiatorial contests and also fought wild beasts in the amphitheater.
VIENNA - Archeologists say they have located and excavated the ruins of a massive amphitheater used to train gladiators east of Vienna in what they call a "sensational discovery. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Music flows from live performances in local bars, although the main concerts are held at the Roman amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du ChÃ¢teau de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra. Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'AnthÃ©ron's Festival 2011
Instead of being in an Oriental amphitheatre, he was standing in a rural lane; instead of tumult he found tranquillity; instead of regal pageantries an almost primitive simplicity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
Music flows from live performances in local bars, although the main concerts are held at the Roman amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
It has been observed that the amphitheatre dominated the townscape of a Roman town as the cathedral dominated the medieval town.
It sits in a natural amphitheatre in a dip in the surrounding fells. The Sun
In a sense, the problem of the New Globe is that it wants to try and cover traditions that changed over a period of forty two years and that were also different from playhouse to playhouse, at least between amphitheatres and hall playhouses.
The gazebo of the amphitheatre was the perfect setting for their ethereal fusion of cool jazz and old-time calypso.
Thomas Kellaway felt very small and timid as he passed between the tall columns outside the amphitheatre. Burning Bright
Vomitoria - the term for entrances leading to the tiers of seats in a Roman amphitheatre - stand on either side of the stage.
It was in the International Amphitheatre, and there had been a big controversy about it.
It's quite stunning actually, a natural amphitheatre surrounded by hills and mountains covered in bush.
A county shaped like an amphitheatre.
With its grid-pattern streets, one of France's best preserved colosseums, an amphitheatre and underground crypts much of this town has escaped the influence of the 20th century.
The theater on the $ 320 million vessel was designed in the style of an outdoor amphitheater, with cantilevered balconies.
The officers of the amphitheater were still employed in the task of fixing the vast awning (or _velaria_) which covered the whole, and which luxurious invention the Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
It is 157 feet high and the amphitheatre from wall to wall is 620 by 513 feet, the largest in existence.
That must be the oval unroofed amphitheater in Rome. It was basically a stadium with comprehensive functions.
Already video conferencing, e-commerce, and video entertainment are migrating to cyberspace, leaving behind the agoras, bazaars, and amphitheatres of the past.
We saw ancient Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres and walled medieval cities.
Though it’s looked like the amphitheater is nowhere close to being ready in time, yesterday the concrete slab was poured, leaving the installation of the roof and some seats. Pavilion Announces Summer Line-Up at cvillenews.com
There is an auditorium on the inside and the amphitheatre is at a right angle outside.
This June, the hotel unveiled what might be the swankiest spa in London: a four-story, 35,500 square foot flagship ESPA Life spa featuring a silver steel swimming pool, an amphitheater sauna, a black mosaic steam room, a Daniel Galvin hair salon, and a state-of-the-art gym. Yvonne Yorke: Stand Out Luxury Hotels (PHOTOS)
In the center of town was a stage and amphitheater which last night held the town's large orchestra and a glee club.
The elliptical amphitheatre could have seated between 4,500 and 9,000 spectators.
So they moved into the stage left dressing room off of the outdoor amphitheatre.
So they moved into the stage left dressing room off of the outdoor amphitheatre.
You have to follow poorly marked trails for around 1.5 kilometers from the amphitheater in order to see them. Las Piedras Bola: the great stone balls of Ahualulco
Radial consequent streams cut deep canyons into the flanks of the extinct shield volcano, and these canyons are opened out into deep, steep-walled amphitheaters.
A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
Darryl Savage, the owner, is closing his store and auctioning off his inventory, which includes 14 marble balusters that were part of the railing that rings the amphitheater. Arlington cemetery urns turn up on auction block, but how'd they get there?
Archeologists say they have located and excavated the ruins of a massive amphitheater used to train gladiators east of Vienna in what they call a "sensational discovery. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Its Roman amphitheatre seats 5,000 for concerts and the annual film festival.
The semi-circular design of Greek and Roman amphitheatres clearly indicates a fundamental understanding of the spherical propagation of sound.
He made drawings of a great many ancient buildings, including baths, basilicas, amphitheatres, and temples, particularly studying the construction of architectural elements, such as vaults and cupolas.
The theater on the $ 320 million vessel was designed in the style of an outdoor amphitheater, with cantilevered balconies.
The city boasts museums, art galleries and a Roman amphitheatre still used for summer concerts. Times, Sunday Times
The elliptical amphitheatre could have seated between 4,500 and 9,000 spectators.
The money will go towards the school's planned amphitheatre and other drama activities.
Nestle into one of several campsites at the base of the 300-foot-tall amphitheater, and explore the many slots and dry waterfalls branching off from Labyrinth's main canyon.
The Colosseum was the greatest building in Ancient Rome but much smaller amphitheatres were built in Roman Britain and gladiatorial fights may have occurred in these.
Read it properly to revel (or reveal for the slow of speech) in its secrets and secrete properly your resigns on the public amphitheater floor, run in the hippodrome your best horses and sail your vessels (vassals?) under the loving eye of the goddess. A Mess
The Film Society recently expanded and opened The Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center this past summer, which houses 2 theaters, an amphitheater, and a cafÃ©. Ashley Wren Collins: Seeking Cinematic Sustenance in a Saturated World
The curved steps of the rostra, rising like the seats of an amphitheater, had been cordoned off to form the court, and a large crowd was already clustered around it, eager to see what possible defense the famous orator could come up with for a client who was so manifestly guilty. CONSPIRATA
We also visit the Roman amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
At the top beneath the castle is a tiny ancient amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
Scheduled to perform at an international women's musical performance in Soeterijn, the museum's amphitheater, she barely had time to sit down for an interview, let alone grab a sandwich.
He got the lead in a big production at the Dionysia Amphitheater in Greece, so he just took off. Artemis the Brave
Circuses have come a long way, since they gained popularity during the ancient Roman Empire, when amphitheatres were the only source of entertainment to citizens.
Nestling at the foot of this mountain amphitheater, and washed by the bay, straggling lengthways and up and down, is Funchal, with its brilliant white houses and green facings glittering in the sun. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
If the amphitheater is delayed, he surely wants to keep people from blaming the T.J. Center for unrelated construction delays. 2005 June archive at cvillenews.com
Also, an actor in an amphitheatre is effectively surrounded on all sides by spectators and may choose to keep moving so that everyone has a chance to see him.
Above ground, an amphitheater lined with seven double rows of cypress trees echoes the octagonal space below.
The Colosseum was the greatest building in Ancient Rome but much smaller amphitheatres were built in Roman Britain and gladiatorial fights may have occurred in these.
The corrie is an awe-inspiring amphitheatre below a ring of peaks that rise like cathedrals, their rock architecture being very spectacular.
The camp combines classical theater forms such as commedia dell'arte with the great outdoors, performing at spaces such as Skyland Amphitheatre in the Shenandoah Valley. Appreciating the tenor of opera company life
The rocky canyon walls are almost like a natural amphitheater.
Dining is a fun experience here, because the hotel conducts theme dining almost every night at the restaurant, amphitheater or pool grill.
‘Gettin' Down at the Amphitheater,’ which features De La Soul as guest rhymers, fondly evokes the film Wild Style, a 1982 tale of South Bronx graffiti, love, and rap.
Many Roman traditions and institutions also disappeared or simply became redundant in the process, not least the arenas and amphitheatres for the circuses and games once supported by the state and municipal authorities.
There is an auditorium on the inside and the amphitheatre is at a right angle outside.
Its Roman amphitheatre seats 5,000 for concerts and the annual film festival.
Sitting directly behind us in the amphitheatre was another artistic inventor from that time who has managed to survive, Victor Moscoso above. Hippies on Mount Tam 1: The Musical
Free musical performance in the amphitheatre next to Tower Bridge. Times, Sunday Times
We Europeans lost our ancient theatre forms even though we have Greek and Roman texts and impressive amphitheatres.
Scheduled to perform at an international women's musical performance in Soeterijn, the museum's amphitheater, she barely had time to sit down for an interview, let alone grab a sandwich.
And Arjuna the accomplisher of inconceivable feats, having won Draupadi by his success in the amphitheatre, was saluted with reverence by all the The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
The amphitheater, which is paneled in maple wood strips, can be closed off behind a 16-foot-wide garage door, an homage to the site's former incarnation as a parking facility. Lincoln Center Hits Its Mark
On one side of me lay a wood, than which nature cannot produce a finer, and on the other the Thames, with its shelvy bank and charming lawns rising like an amphitheatre, along which, here and there, one espies a picturesque white house, aspiring in majestic simplicity to pierce the dark foliage of the surrounding trees; thus studding, like stars in the galaxy, the rich expanse of this charming vale. Travels in England in 1782
Nearby is a vast Roman amphitheatre for gladiatorial conflicts, mock sea-battles, and the killing of wild animals captured in nearby Africa.
As it happens to thee in the amphitheatre and such places, that the continual sight of the same things and the uniformity make the spectacle wearisome, so it is in the whole of life; for all things above, below, are the same and from the same.
As in a Greek amphitheatre, the effect is of considerable height and unavoidable focus. The Times Literary Supplement
Top executives first briefed a packed amphitheater of reporters and then sent them on a three-hour tour of its plants, past swirling beakers, giant fermentation vats and filters.
It calls for creating a skateboard park, a picnic area, a sculpture to climb on and an amphitheater.
Free musical performance in the amphitheatre next to Tower Bridge. Times, Sunday Times
At the same time, the first great modern neuroanatomists were doing forbidden human dissections at the new, secret amphitheater at the University of Padua medical school.
The Roman amphitheatre is one of the finest and best preserved anywhere in the world. The Wine Roads of France
The answer is, take him from the lecture-room, take him from the amphitheatre - put him in the out-patient department - put him in the wards.
Thomas Kellaway felt very small and timid as he passed between the tall columns outside the amphitheatre. Burning Bright
The self-sufficient campus has a post office, a farm, athletic fields, chapel and amphitheater.
We also visit the Roman amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
For the rest it had the finest and vastest prospect all round it I ever saw from any house: from Tyndale Fell to St. Bees Head, all Cumberland as in amphitheatre unmatchable; Galloway mountains, New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
The Film Society recently expanded and opened The Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center this past summer, which houses 2 theaters, an amphitheater, and a café. Ashley Wren Collins: Seeking Cinematic Sustenance in a Saturated World
The stage seemed a long way away, but the amphitheatre is steeply raked, so there was no problem seeing the big picture.
A life-size bronze arm of a Roman statue has been excavated from a rubbish-filled ditch or watercourse in the City of London, just south of the Roman amphitheatre.
It also features a walled kitchen garden and an amphitheatre for open-air performances in the summer. Times, Sunday Times
Over the north gate, appear two bulls, in alto-relievo, extremely well executed, emblems which, according to the custom of the Romans, signified that the amphitheatre was erected at the expence of the people. Travels through France and Italy
At a signal from Geiseric, torch-bearers in scarlet silk appeared out of the shadows and stood in a ring around the gaming-space below the king's table, like the floor of a miniature amphitheater.
He saw thousands of spectators upon the natural terraces, a stage and entertainment similar to the grand amphitheatre at the Hollywood Bowl in the USA.
The main volume is based on a Greek amphitheatre with steeply raked seating that offers good sight and sound lines.
Sources close to the consortium said that once approval is given by City Hall it would be necessary to raise a public subscription to fund the amphitheatre for the ring events.
It was a pretty impressive field, with real dugouts and amphitheater-like seating up the first- and third-base lines.
Behind the amphitheatre were the thermae of the same emperor Titus Vespasian. Travels through France and Italy
The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater
Most of his productions evolve out of workshops he conducts, and are performed first in his amphitheatre for a select audience.
Most of his productions evolve out of workshops he conducts, and are performed first in his amphitheatre for a select audience.
But what makes this most compelling is the perfect view of the whole curve of that ancient amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
It was in the form of a sedilium, the seat occupied by the officiating priest near the altar in the chancel of a church, being about six feet high and formed of three sedilia, with two pillars supporting three arches, which in turn supported the roof; in general form it was like a portion of the row of seats in a Roman amphitheatre. From John O'Groats to Land's End
The amphitheater was a sealed off round structure . Swordplay, wresting, gladiatoral and other contests were held there.
He saw thousands of spectators upon the natural terraces, a stage and entertainment similar to the grand amphitheatre at the Hollywood Bowl in the USA.
In thirteen weeks the builders demolished the old gallery and amphitheatre, and constructed a new large amphitheatre with 600 seats instead of benches. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
I just posted the photo of you orating from the "amphitheater" - as you'll recall a somewhat featureless landscape; at any rate you can see the pic here on my photostream: Taking the High Road
The amphitheater, which is paneled in maple wood strips, can be closed off behind a 16-foot-wide garage door, an homage to the site's former incarnation as a parking facility. Lincoln Center Hits Its Mark
The artist likens it to an amphitheater, a setting more open and less acoustically projective than a typical bandshell, but one that has long accommodated musical and dramatic performances.
VIENNA - Archaeologists say they have located and excavated the ruins of a massive amphitheater used to train gladiators east of Vienna in what they call a "sensational discovery. FOXNews.com
It was in the form of a sedilium, the seat occupied by the officiating priest near the altar in the chancel of a church, being about six feet high and formed of three sedilia, with two pillars supporting three arches, which in turn supported the roof; in general form it was like a portion of the row of seats in a Roman amphitheatre. From John O'Groats to Land's End
Temples, an amphitheatre, paved roads, toilets and bath houses are uniquely preserved, but it is the individual houses, some with simple mosaics, more than a few with bawdy Roman graffiti, that bring the history to life.
On July 16, 1992, the dome was blown to pieces, catapulting 12-foot boulders throughout the amphitheater and sending a column of ash 3.5 miles into the air.
Some famous amphitheatres were built by the Romans.
Fourth, look at the Romans' idea of a general get-together - those amphitheatres where you could enjoy watching animals being tormented and humans murdered.
The answer is, take him from the lecture-room, take him from the amphitheatre - put him in the out-patient department - put him in the wards.
I looked back to the upholstered heights and listened to unearthly sounds pooled in the amphitheatre of hills. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
It ended, in fact, on the day of graduation for the Fall term, and forced the ceremonies from the outdoor amphitheater with scenic backdrop into the cafeteria, which had memories of its own.
The upper team would have been on the logging track above the natural amphitheatre when he broke for cover.
(An amphitheater with crescentic tumuli as seatings, by Hargreaves Associates.) Agro Park
The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater.
This huge amphitheatre is in course of excavation; and it is quite possible – possible and probable – that inscriptions in the earliest stages of the hieroglyphic writing may there be discovered. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
Some say it was built on the site of a Roman amphitheatre in Chester. Times, Sunday Times
Dining is a fun experience here, because the hotel conducts theme dining almost every night at the restaurant, amphitheater or pool grill.
This ultramodern amphitheater accommodates more than 9,000 fans in oversized, cushioned seating.
The theater on the $ 320 million vessel was designed in the style of an outdoor amphitheater, with cantilevered balconies.
In a sense, the problem of the New Globe is that it wants to try and cover traditions that changed over a period of forty two years and that were also different from playhouse to playhouse, at least between amphitheatres and hall playhouses.
It chronicled her designs for city plazas that feature fountains and tiled walkways; for arenas and semi-circular amphitheaters in public parks; and for benches, monoliths, pyramids, pools and private bathhouses.
We saw ancient Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres and walled medieval cities.
Modern legionaries lead a torch-lit march from the ruins of the amphitheatre. The Sun
After Hardwar the valleys would occasionally widen into a great green opera of cultivation terraces, falling away like the tiers of a Greek amphitheatre into the convex bowl of the mountainside.
The corrie is an awe-inspiring amphitheatre below a ring of peaks that rise like cathedrals, their rock architecture being very spectacular.
That must be the oval unroofed amphitheater in Rome. It was basically a stadium with comprehensive functions.
The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater.
These include a palisaded enclosure, a possible pagan temple, and what appears to be part of a Roman amphitheatre.
References to playgoing were in consequence full of complaints about the ‘garlic-breathed stinkards who flooded the yard at the amphitheatres.
This amphitheatre is the Val Buona; that little white house is the cottage of Bastian the wood-ranger; yonder pale gigantic pinnacles towering in solitary splendour above the tree-tops to the rear of the cottage, are the crests of the Cristallo. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
There is also a large open-air amphitheatre. Times, Sunday Times
Sources close to the consortium said that once approval is given by City Hall it would be necessary to raise a public subscription to fund the amphitheatre for the ring events.
Eventually there were well over 250 amphitheatres in the Roman empire - so it is no surprise that the amphitheatre and its associated shows are the quintessential symbols of Roman culture.
The amphitheater is going to be a great space with a great lineup of acts. Fridays After 5 Lineup Announced at cvillenews.com
The Roman amphitheatre is one of the finest and best preserved anywhere in the world. The Wine Roads of France
We Europeans lost our ancient theatre forms even though we have Greek and Roman texts and impressive amphitheatres.
A pond near an amphitheater from Alexander the Great's time had a black-crowned night heron, a few little egrets, pied kingfishers and black-winged stilts.
Another exists at Frilford, with a walled precinct containing at least one temple and now supplemented by the recently-discovered amphitheatre.
Top executives first briefed a packed amphitheater of reporters and then sent them on a three-hour tour of its plants, past swirling beakers, giant fermentation vats and filters.
With its grid-pattern streets, one of France's best preserved colosseums, an amphitheatre and underground crypts much of this town has escaped the influence of the 20th century.
The history of playing from 1610 to the closure of 1642 is one of gradual bifurcation into two traditions centred on two types of venue: the open-air amphitheatres and the indoor hall playhouses.
Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal The new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center includes an 87-seat amphitheater, above, with a 152-inch plasma screen, the largest in the world. Lincoln Center Hits Its Mark
Some say it was built on the site of a Roman amphitheatre in Chester. Times, Sunday Times
The dens of the amphitheatre disgorged at once a hundred lions: a hundred darts from the unerring hand of Commodus laid them dead as they run raging round the Arena. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Also, an actor in an amphitheatre is effectively surrounded on all sides by spectators and may choose to keep moving so that everyone has a chance to see him.
The main volume is based on a Greek amphitheatre with steeply raked seating that offers good sight and sound lines.
Therefore he resolved he would study the laws; but seeing that there were but three scald-and one bald-pated legist in that place, he departed from thence, and in his way made the bridge of Guard and the amphitheatre of Nimes in less than three hours, which, nevertheless, seems to be a more divine than human work. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
This ultramodern amphitheater accommodates more than 9,000 fans in oversized, cushioned seating.
The prospect lies within a belt of rocks assigned to the Triassic Amphitheatre Group of the Wrangellia terrane, consisting of basalt flows and minor interflow argillite, limestone, and tuff, commonly with gabbroic sills. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
He took part in gladiatorial contests and also fought wild beasts in the amphitheater.
Pompeii was a walled town with an amphitheatre, forum, basilica, several public baths, two theatres, and at least nine temples.
Many of Herod's structures are well preserved - the palace, aqueduct, hippodrome, and the amphitheater.
Most of the festival centred itself around the bandstand in the Arboretum park, with its surrounding paved semi-amphitheatre, and a grassy sitting area beyond that.
It chronicled her designs for city plazas that feature fountains and tiled walkways; for arenas and semi-circular amphitheaters in public parks; and for benches, monoliths, pyramids, pools and private bathhouses.

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