This volume deals with the architectural history of the theatre in Roman Palestine and Provincia Arabia. The first part provides the historical-cultural background and seeks to explain the significance of theatres in a region which had no classical roots. Part two contains a comprehensive architectural analysis, richly illustrated, of each of the thirty theatres so far uncovered in the area.

Arthur Segal, Ph.D. (1976) in Classical Archaeology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Haifa University, Israel. He has published extensively on the various aspects of Town Planning and Architecture in the Roman East.