The theatre is 102 metres across and has seating for about 15,000 people; it is thus among the largest of the Ancient Roman civilisation | , who wrote between 170 and 160 BC |
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Brockett, Oscar; Hildy, Franklin J | Gesine Manuwald, Roman Republican Theatre, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011 , 18 |
, contemporary of Plautus who wrote both comedies and tragedies• , 1st century playwright of a "comedy of manners"• Slater, Roman Theater and Society, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996 , vii.
20, 1st century dramatist most famous for Roman adaptations of ancient Greek plays like Medea and Phaedra | History [ ] It was built in either the second quarter : 53 or the second half of the second century AD, : 143 and is constructed of black |
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The Roman Theatre and Its Audience | Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press |
International Dictionary of Historic Places.
12Volume 4 of: Noelle Watson ed | : 141 It served a city that once had 80,000 inhabitants |
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: 141 The city of Bosra had its fortifications expanded between 481 and 1251 | , a Greek slave taken to Rome in 240 BCE, who wrote plays based on Greek theatre |
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