来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景 第3集 第3集》

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  where you'd go to see necessarily high theater,
  看高雅戏剧的场所 如欣赏萨福克里斯
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  like Sophocles or Euripides or something like that.
  或欧里庇得斯[古希腊悲剧诗人]的作品
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  What you'd often do is go to see farces or comedies.
  人们经常看的是滑稽剧或者喜剧
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  Or sometimes the Romans liked to take a big theater
  有时古罗马人喜欢在一个大剧院的中间
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  and fill the central part of the theater, the cavea, with water
  在中间的梯形座位中注满水
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  and then stage naval battles and that kind of thing.
  上演海军大战或是其它类似的演出
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  So people have all kinds of entertainments in the theater.
  人们在剧院进行各种娱乐
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  But it was also where often the demos or the ekklesia
  但剧院也是政治团体或者议会
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  would meet to have meetings
  集会的地方
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  and holler at each other and have big debates.
  他们在此与对立方大声争辩讨论
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  So the ekklesia was the city place,
  因此ekklesia在城市的公共场所进行
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  and it would often meet in a theater.
  经常在剧院里进行