The existence of a theater in Syracuse is mentioned by the end of the fifth century BC. By mimografo Sofrone, citing the name of architect, Damocopos, said Myrilla for having spread ointments ( "myroi") opening. The theater had great importance as the headquarters of the theatrical playwright Epicarmo, contemporary Formide and Deinoloco of tragediografo Frinico. There was Aeschylus in 476 BC "Etnee" tragedy written to celebrate the re-Catania with the name of Aitna by Ierone I; theater subsequently saw in 472 BC The first performance of the tragedy "The Persians", one of the works of Aeschylus come down to us. At the end of the century there were probably represented the works of Dionysius I of tragediografi hosted in his court, including Antifonte and Carcino.
In this theater had not yet canonical form a semicircle, but was perhaps consisting of three tiers straight willing to Keystone. Diodorus Siculus relates to the arrival of Syracuse in 406 BC Dionisio When the people came from the theater. Plutarch tells instead dell'irruzione a bull raged in the theater during a town (355 BC), and to the wagon in Timoleonte in 336 BC While the people had assembled, the importance of testifying in public life.
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