The stalls are the sector of a theater or stadium that is intended for spectators. The stalls are made up of the space in question along with the seats so that each person can sit and enjoy the show.
For example: "The stalls for Argentina's next game will have a price of five hundred pesos" , "The actor looked up, observed the stalls and was excited to see his father" , "The ball was rejected by the defender and ended impacting a spectator who was in the audience .
What is the stalls?
The stalls can be understood as both the space of the venue and the seat itself. In general, access to the stalls has a higher price than other, so-called popular, sectors. Football stadiums , in some countries, are usually segmented into popular stadiums (with people following the game standing) and stalls. There may also be more exclusive sectors, such as boxes, that offer greater comfort.
By extension, it is possible that the people who attend a show or event are named as the audience: "The audience was not satisfied with the singer's performance and soon began to whistle" , "The coach will have to explain to the audience why "He reacted that way" , "The footballer dedicated his goal to the audience" .
The term in Ancient Greece
There are other uses of the stalls concept. In Greek mythology , Plataea was the name of a nymph, descended from Metope and Asopus . This mythological being , in turn, provided the name to an ancient town located in what is now Boeotia .
Battle of Plataea
The Battle of Plataea was the last to take place during the Second Persian War . The Persian Wars , for their part, were confrontations between the city-states of the Greek nations and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia that began in the year 499 BC. C. and lasted approximately five decades.
The beginning of the Battle of Plataea occurred in 479 BC. C. , in the vicinity of the city of Plataea , on the outskirts of Central Greece. The conflict occurred between the Persian Empire of Xerxes I (also called Xerxes the Great, in the Achaemenid Empire he was the fifth Great King) and the Panhellenic League (an alliance of city-states made up of Athens, Megara, Corinth and Sparta).
A year earlier, the Persian invasion force had achieved more than one victory under the leadership of its king on the field itself, at the battles of Artemisium and Thermopylae; In addition, he had managed to conquer Attica, Boeotia and Thessaly. On the other hand, the Greek allied fleet unexpectedly won and prevented him from conquering the Peloponnese. Xerxes was forced to retreat with most of his army and leave Mardonius, his general, who defeated the Greeks a year later.
During the summer of 479 BC. BC , the Persians (whom the Greeks called Medes ) settled in Boeotia and set up a fortified camp a short distance from Plataea, while the Greeks formed an army and left the Peloponnese.
The Hellenes refused to fight for a few days on the terrain that favored the cavalry surrounding the settlement and began to partially retreat, because their supply lines were interrupted, thus fragmenting their battle line.
This was interpreted by the Medes as an absolute retreat, after which Mardonius ordered his army to pursue the enemy; However, the Hellenes stopped their advance, confronted them and murdered Mardonius . After the death of their general, the Medes tried to escape, but defeat was inevitable.