HISTORY

The ancient Roman theater, also called Teatro dell'Anticaglia, dates back to the 1st century BC. Built in the typical semicircular shape of the Greek theater, it could accommodate between 5,000 and 6,000 spectators and it had three entrances: two side entrances for the actors and one used by the spectators. The theater was built using the ‘opus mixtum’ technique in order to avoid any collapses due to earthquakes: the reticulatum caused the seismic wave to disperse, while the latericium blocked it.

In this theater, considered by Octavian Augustus one of the glories of Neapolis, the emperor Claudius had several plays in honor of his beloved brother Germanicus. The first renovation took place in the Flavian age, in the first century, and later in the second century. Fallen into oblivion in the medieval period, between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries it was gutted by Vico Cinquesanti. Today, two arches in via Anticaglia testify to the presence of Nero's ancient stage. These are structures used to reinforce the external part of the theater now perfectly incorporated into the existing buildings.

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