An amphitheatre is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances and sports. The cited article says the term derives from the ancient Greek amphitheatron, from amphi, meaning on both sides or around, and theatron, meaning place for viewing, that ancient Greek theatres were typically built on hillsides and semi-circular in design, that the first amphitheatre may have been built at Pompeii around 70 BC, and that ancient Roman amphitheatres were oval or circular in plan. It is one of the three venue concepts, with the stadium and the arena, named by the combined stadium, arena and amphitheater value. Buildings recorded in the atlas as amphitheatres are grouped under this concept.
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Domain (category)The source defines the plan of the venue; mapping that spatial description onto the atlas domain list is an editorial classification. Concept DomainOpen-air performance and sports venues 1 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Amphitheatre
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An amphitheatre is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.
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Ancient Roman amphitheatres were oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium.
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An amphitheatre (American English: amphitheater) is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.
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