ου (τὸ) l’Odéon :
      1 édifice public d’Athènes, primit. destiné aux exercices de chant, AND. 6, 14, etc. et affecté depuis Périclès à certains services publics (tribunal de l’archonte-juge, AR. Vesp. 1109 ; DÉM. 1362, 24 ; assemblées du peuple, lieu de distribution de blé, DÉM. 918, 9, etc.) ;
      2 n. de divers autres théâtres pour les représentations grecques, à Athènes, PAUS. 7, 20, 6 ; à Corinthe, PAUS. 2, 3, 6, etc.

➳ Dans une inscr. att. de 346 av. J.C. ; v. Meisterh.

Étym. ᾠδή.

τό, the Odeum, a public building at Athens built by Pericles for musical performances (< ᾠδαί), having an orchestra, And. 1.38, IG2². 1688.3, Eup. 18D. ; and other apparatus of a theatre, Paus. 1.8.6, 1.14.1; used as a law-court, Ar. V. 1109 (troch., cf. Sch.), D. 59.52; for philos. disputations, Alex. 25.2, D.L. 7.184, Plu. 2.605a; for soldiers’ quarters, X. HG 2.4.9, 24; as a place for distributing corn, D. 34.37; it seems to have been circular, with a peaked roof, whence the line of Cratin. 71, ὁ σχινοκέφαλος Ζεὺς ὁδὶ προσέρχεται ὁ Περικλέης, τᾠδεῖον ἐπὶ τοῦ κρανίου ἔχων, cf. Plu. Per. 13, Thphr. Char. 3.4; rebuilt, after having been burnt, by Ariobarzanes, App. Mith. 38. of other music-halls, as that at Athens, built by Herodes Atticus, Paus. 7.20.6; at Corinth, Id. 2.3.6; at Patrae, Id. 7.20.6; at Patara, Epigr.Gr. 412; at Samos, GDI 5702.41 (iv BC); at Rome, built by Hadrian, D.C. 69.4; θεατροειδὲς ᾠ. CIG 4614 (Palestine).