Enrico Giorgi, Giacomo Sigismondo, Francesca D’Ambola, Belisa Muka, "Gli edifici per spettacolo a Butrinto"

The study seminar intends to focus attention on aspects of entertainment buildings, though without neglecting the urban and functional framework related to them, welcoming critical review of previous research or outcomes of new investigations on theaters and amphitheaters of the regions facing both sides of the Adriatic Sea. In these territories marked by even very different protohistoric cultural traditions, traits of pervasive diffusion of Greek culture from the Hellenistic age onwards are grasped, merging and blending with the later distinctly Roman historical-architectural horizon.
Within this framework, interventions devoted to theaters and amphitheaters of the Adriatic area addressed to one or more of the following themes will be compared: the relationship with the morphological and environmental framework, architectural aspects, design solutions, dimensional and metrological features, relations of the structural framework with the literary and source tradition, construction systems, site practices, materials used, and characters and materials for decoration.