What word, from the fact that the audience issue from it, is given to the passageway in a Roman Theatre?

zbeckabee

This doesn't answer the question, but may be a good link to start hunting: parodos PÆ-roh-dawss (Greek; A passageway; pl. parodoi) Side entrance into the orchestra of a Greek theater (one on each side); the space between the audience seating and the skene building; primary entrance/exit for the chorus and used by audience for entrance and exit from theatre; also the song sung by chorus as it first enters the orchestra. vomitoria vah-mih-TAW-ree-a (Latin pl.; sing. vomitorium. English sing.: vomitory) Theatre entrances or exits for audience; vaulted passageways leading to or from the cavea; entrances piercing the banks of seats of theatres or amphitheatres. A commonly held, but false, belief is that Ancient Romans designated spaces called vomitoria for the purpose of actual vomiting, as part of a binge and purge cycle. portus post scaenas PAWR-tuss post-SKAY-nas (Latin) A portico or passageway behind the scaenae (scene building) of a Roman theatre. http://www.whitman.edu/theatre/theatretour/glossary/glossary.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium Dec 23 08, 9:01 AM

edmund80

I think zb already got it right. Those exits for the audience in Roman theaters are called vomitoria. "Vomitoria or entrances and exits were made available to the audience." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_theatre_(structure) http://books.google.com/books?id=k6oo11z5ORAC&pg=PA365&lpg=PA365&dq=roman+theatre+%2B+exit+for+audience+called+vomitoria&source=web&ots=HOOEqMTEwR&sig=_6frcegndBMWOrdadYpkBj2t_pc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result http://books.google.com/books?id=qhl6vBs25BsC&pg=PA765&lpg=PA765&dq=Roman+amphitheatre+%2B+exits+called&source=web&ots=fqJdlD-Xgw&sig=URpM037Us2CSgoZW8Fb1jIHTr38&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result Dec 23 08, 2:38 PM