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Hellenic amphitheatre built into the slope of a hill, Pergamon, modern-day Turkiye, built ~250 BCE (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It's an amphitheater. It's going to be designed with acoustics in mind. Not that it was perfect, I'm sure, but the sound probably did carry at least fairly well to the top.