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Did you know that ancient Greek playwrights could use a rolling platform to bring scenery or corpses onto the stage?
An ekkyklema (lit. 'roll-out machine') was a wheeled platform used in ancient Greek theatre. From at least the middle of the fifth century BCE, it was used to reveal events conceived of as having happened within the skene, a structure behind the stage which usually represented some sort of interior space. Since early manuscripts of ancient Greek plays did not include stage directions, modern scholars must infer its use from evidence within the plays' dialogue, as well as from marginal notes (scholia) added by post-classical scholars to surviving manuscripts.
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