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if that's the case, and I know the source,..did "Ritz, Troxy, Dominion, Plaza, Granada" have similar births? No, though one could insist that the "Odeon" might have been the only one different, in fact it was simply purloined. The website and sources indicating otherwise are bogged down in such historical lazy mindedness. ..unless of course Oscar was a favored associate of Pericles.Hmmmmm!!
"Oscar Deutch" might have, or someone" "clever later purloined the word and abused it as advertising copy however it simply is not true that this defines the Odeon. I steal from another source ( I credit Janine Bakker www.livius.org/ia-in/influence/influence03.html ) to meet fire with fire..and educate..THUS:
"The Odeon, or music room, which in its interior was full of seats and ranges of pillars, and outside had its roof made to slope and descend from one single point at the top, was constructed, we are told, in imitation of the king of Persia's pavilion [sk�n�]. This was done by Pericles's order.
[Plutarch, Life of Pericles 13.5-6]
It is not surprising that the pavilion was used as a piece of scenery or/and music room. After all,
see part 2