THE ODEUM OF HERODES ATTICUS
Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes was an extremely wealthy magnate and sophist, an Athenian citizen from the demos of Marathon, who lived in the second century AD.
In AD 161 he built the odeum in Athens, in memory of his wife Aspasia Annia Regilla. The Odeum of Herodes Atticus conforms to the type of Roman theatres. The skene, 35.40 metres long, is two-storeyed. The orchestra was 18.80 metres in diameter and paved with black and white tiles of marble from Karystos on the island of Euboea.
The Odeum was covered by a roof of cedar wood. The facade, a large part of which still stands, was grandiose in aspect, three-storeyed and with arched linetels.