Disibodenberg is a monastery ruin in Rhineland-Palatinate. It was founded by Saint Disibod. Hildegard of Bingen, who wrote Disibod's biography Vita Sancti Disibodi, lived in Disibodenberg for 39 years.
In 640, Disibod came as a missionary from Ireland to Francia. After working for 10 years in Vosges and Ardennes, he arrived near Odernheim am Glan and started teaching there. After his death, the monastery was founded. The Normans and the Hungarians plundered and destroyed the site several times, but Archbishop Willigis of Mainz rebuilt the church and monastery in the 10th century.
The monastery survived until the 16th century. It was plundered in 1504 by Bayern army and securalized in 1559. It was again damaged and looted in Thirty Years' War. Today the ruins lie in a charming setting between the rivers Glan and Nahe. Embedded in the Romanesque park created by the famous Heidelberg garden artist Johann Metzger in the mid-19th century, it lies on the plateau of the hill. On a tour of the monastery ruins, one can still clearly recognise the layout of the monastic complex.
The ancient Argos Theater was built in 320 BC. and is located in Argos, Greece against Larissa Hill. Nearby from this site is Agora, Roman Odeon, and the Baths of Argos. The theater is one of the largest architectural developments in Greece and was renovated in ca 120 AD.
The Hellenistic theater at Argos is cut into the hillside of the Larisa, with 90 steps up a steep incline, forming a narrow rectilinear cavea. Among the largest theaters in Greece, it held about 20,000 spectators and is divided by two landings into three horizontal sections. Staircases further divide the cavea into four cunei, corresponding to the tribes of Argos A high wall was erected to prevent unauthorized access into the theatron and may have helped the acoustics, but it is said the sound quality is still very good today.
Around 120 CE, both theaters were renovated in the Roman style.