theater
the seeing-place
Today this word meansWhere plays and films are watched.
Theatron is "the seeing-place." It comes from theaomai, to behold — and theory shares the root.
The Theater of Dionysus on the southern slope of the Athenian Acropolis is the prototype of the Western theater.
An open-air semicircle seating over ten thousand, it still stands on the spot.