Seats helped ancient greeks hear from back row

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As the ancient Greeks were placing the last few stones on the magnificent theater at Epidaurus in the fourth century B.C., they couldn`t have known that they had unwittingly created a sophisticated acoustic filter. But when audiences in the back row were able to hear music and voices with amazing clarity (well before any theater had the luxury of a sound system), the Greeks must have known that they had done something very right because they made many attempts to duplicate Epidaurus` design, but never with the same success.


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[Jan van de Velde]

Veel schijnt te danken te zijn aan de vooroverhellende voorkant van de zitplaatsen


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