Note 481 — Chapter III · THE THEATRE (continued 2)

Griech. Theater, p. 380. [Also Noack, Philologus, lviii. pp. 2 ff.; to whom Puchstein, Griech. Bühne, pp. 30 ff., replies sufficiently. The evidence of the vases (see below), where actors are shown acting on a stage with columns in front, is conclusive against his contention that the only proper support for a stage is a wall, and that therefore the columns of the proscenium can only represent a back-scene.]