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- A periaktos (plural form periaktoi, from a Gr**** word meaning revolving) is a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes. It was first...
- to speak from. It was also where costumes were stored and to which the periaktoi (painted panels serving as the background) were connected. Ancient Gr****...
- of the ****enistic stage that might have been used in Athens was the periaktoi, described by Vitruvius and Pollux, these were revolving devices for rapidly...
- panels at the sides of the stage, which were turned like pages in a book; Periaktoi: painted panels on the faces of standing triangles, which were turned...
- Program, the Student Congress and Model United Nations Team, and the annual Periaktoi art magazine. Tenth- and eleventh-grade students can parti****te in a...
- Lanci's theatrical engineering he included a drawing of his periaktoi stage. The periaktoi stage setting was basically a series of three sided revolving...