The main gate, external view.
The theatre is built on a hill to the west end of the “decumanus maximus”, in an area no far from the Emesa gate. With a diameter of 139m and an estimated seating capacity of 20.000 place, it was the biggest theater in Syria
The Great Theater at Apamea vies with the Large Theater at Ephesus, Turkey, for the honor of being the largest extant Roman edifice of its type to have survived the ravages of time. Both buildings are estimated to have held audiences of over 20,000 persons, and both may have had their origins in an earlier Greek Hellenistic structure that was overbuilt in the Roman Era. While the Large Theater at Ephesus has been excavated, the Great Roman Theater at Apamea has never been fully exposed, studied, or understood in its cultural contexts utilizing the most up-to-date archaeological techniques.
The recent excavations undertaken by the Syro-American Expeditions to the Great Roman Theater at Apamea in 2008-2010 provided new insights into understanding this massive theater, the only surviving theater under study from the famous Syrian Hellenistic cities of Apamea, Seleucia, Antioch, and Latakia founded by Seleucus Nicator and eventually conquered by Rome.
Source “Uncovering the Great Theater of Apamea” Popular Archaeology, June 2012,
Roman Theatre at Apamea — туристическая достопримечательность, одна из Амфитеатры в городе Kalaat Moudik, Сирия. Он расположен: 334 км от Халеб, 570 км от Бейрут, 640 км от Дамаск. Читать далее
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