_Excavation of the two theatres and the court behind the Large
Theatre_ (July, 1764, to March, 1765; and December, 1791, to
February, 1796): FIORELLI, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. 1, pt. 1, pp.
158-165, pt. 2, pp. 46-63. For the Small Theatre, see also vol. 1, pt.
2, pp. 69, 75.
_Paintings at Pompeii relating to the stage_: HELBIG, Wandgemaelde,
nos. 1464-1476; SOGLIANO, Le pitture murali Campane, nos. 740-752;
MAASS, Affreschi scenici di Pompeii, Ann. dell' Inst., vol. 53 (1881),
pp. 109-159, and Mon. dell' Inst., vol. 11, pl. 30-32.
_Remains of the Large Theatre_: MAZOIS, Les ruines de Pompei, vol. 4,
pp. 55-70, pl. 27-34; FIORELLI, Descrizione di Pompei, pp. 352-357;
NISSEN, Pomp. Studien, pp. 232-253; OVERBECK-MAU, Pompeji, pp.
153-176.
_The tribunals_ [p. 145]: it is evident from the language of Suetonius
(Div. Aug. 44, solis virginibus Vestalibus locum in theatro separatim
et contra praetoris tribunal dedit) that opposite the place set aside
for the praetor, which was called tribunal, there was another likewise
reserved. In our theatre the two platforms mentioned correspond
exactly with this arrangement, and there is no other part of the
structure to which the word _tribunalia_, in the inscription of the
Holconii (p. 148), could properly be applied. We are safe therefore in
calling the platforms tribunals.
_Wall painting, showing theatre police seated in niches in front of
the stage_ [p. 146]: found in the casa della fontana grande; described
by HELBIG, Wandgemaelde, no. 1468; figured in Museo Borb., vol. 4, pl.
18, and in WIESELER, Theatergebaeude und Denkmaeler des Buehnenwesens bei
den Griechen und Roemern (Goettingen, 1851), pl. 11, 2. A similar figure
sitting in a shallow niche has been found on a wall in the eighth
region (VIII. II. 23); see Roem. Mitth., vol. 3 (1888), p. 202, no. 12.
On the need of police to keep order in Roman theatres, see the
references given by MARQUARDT, Roem. Staatsverwaltung, vol. 3 (Edit.
2), pp. 541-542; but cf. KOeRTING, Geschichte des griechischen und
roemischen Theaters (Paderborn, 1897), p. 367.
_Place of stage machinery_ [p. 147]: Pollux, Onomast. IV. 128.
_Inscriptions relating to Actius Anicetus_ [p. 148]: inscription found
at Puteoli, C. I. L. X. 1946; graffiti, C. I. L. IV. 2155, and Index,
p. 233, under =Actius= and =Anicetus=; C. I. L. IV. Suppl. 5395.
_Assemblies in the theatre_ [p. 148]: at Tarentum (282 B.C.), App. De
rebus Samnit. VII. II; Dio Cass. Frag. XXIX. 5; at Pergamus, Plut.
Sulla, 11. Cf. Muller, Buehnenalterthuemer, pp. 73-75.
_Inscriptions found in the theatre_ [pp. 148-150]: monumental, C. I.
L. X. 833-843; painted inscriptions and graffiti, C. I. L. IV. pp. 63,
153-157.
_The stage and the orchestra in the Greek and the Roman theatre_ [p.
150]: Vitr. V. VI-VIII.
_The problem of the stage in the Greek theatre_ [p. 151]: DOERPFELD
and REISCH, Das griechische Theater, Beitraege zur Geschichte des
Dionysos-Theaters in Athen und anderer griechischer Theater (Athens
and Leipzig, 1896), particularly pp. 341-365; DOERPFELD, Das
griechische Theater Vitruvs, Athen. Mitth., vol. 22 (1897), pp.
439-462; vol. 23 (1898), pp. 326-356. A convenient summary of
Doerpfeld's conclusions and of the literature of the subject to 1898
is given by FRAZER, Pausanias's Description of Greece, vol. 3, pp.
254-255, and vol. 5, pp. 582-584.
_The stage of the Large Theatre at Pompeii_ [p. 152]: PUCHSTEIN and
KOLDEWEY, Berliner Philologische Wochenschrift, 1896, pp. 477-478;
Archaeologischer Anzeiger, Beiblatt zum Jahrb. des Inst., 1896, pp. 30,
40; PUCHSTEIN, Die griechische Buehne (Berlin, 1901), pp. 75-77.