Amphitheater
a double theater.
The ancient theaters were nearly semi- circular in shape; or, more accurately, they were half ovals, SO that an amphicircular in shape; or, more accurately, they were half ovals, so that an theater, theoretically, consisting of two theaters, placed with their concavities meeting each other, was, loosely speaking, a nearly circular, or, more precisely, an oval building. Amphitheaters were first constructed of wood, but in the time of Augustus stone began to be employed.
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