odean

[jonbouy]

what does the word odean stand for

[Sylday]

Do you mean Odeon, like the name of the cinema chain? Originally, an odeon was a kind of theatre in ancient Greece, and was especially used for music and poetry.

[IndieSinger]

"Good value family entertainment".

[Jabba]

Further to Sylday's answer, if you are referring to the cinema chain, it is alleged that it stands for Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation, Mr Deutsch being the founder of the chain.

[BrumBob]

Jabba is right

[humming bird]

Hi 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

[humming bird]

Athens had been sacked and emergency accommodation and temporary buildings are to be expected. Besides, the pavilion of Xerxes was not a family tent, but a portable palace. The Hall of the Hundred Columns at Persepolis When the Odeon of Pericles was excavated, it turned out to have almost the same dimensions as the so-called Hall of the Hundred Columns at Persepolis, the capital of the Achaemenid empire. The Odeon measured 68,50 x 62,40 meters and contained 9 x 10 columns; the room of the Persepolis palace had -surprise, surprise- 10 x 10 columns and measured 68,50 x 68,50 meters. The similarity is too obvious to be coincidental. The pavilion must have been a copy of the Hall of the Hundred Columns, and the Odeon must have been a copy of this copy. It should be noted, however, that this Persian example was not really followed in Greek and Roman architecture. The acoustics of the Odeon of Pericles must have been terrible. Later odeons, e.g. those of Agrippa, Domitian and Herodes Atticus, were little theaters and not square halls." Cheers

[humming bird]

I also note the question was "stand-for' not 'is'.I believe however that I have answered the intention of the question."Cheers