How to pronounce“scaena”in English

a scaenae frons. What's important to us here, in the context of this lecture, is that while the Greeks built their theaters--

the scaenae frons, with its forest of columns behind; that part is not well preserved.

It has a stage building or scaenae frons here.

Roman theaters were architecturally different from Greek theaters in that the skene, now called the scaena, had become bigger and was now joined with the walls of the auditorium.

paintings that we looked at that show these kinds of multi-storied, scaenae frontes with

And it is very much the theater, the theater scaenae frons idea, with a series of projecting elements on top of two columns, with wings on either side,

And then there is a stage building-- we're seeing the back of that here-- but a stage building facing the seating, called a scaenae frons, s-c-a-e-n-a-e f-r-o-n-s,