Odeon
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Odeon or odeum is a building used for musical performance in Sparta, built in the 7th or 6th century BC. Hence, any such building in ancient Greece or ancient Rome was called an odeon.
It may also refer to:
- Cineplex Odeon, one of North America's largest movie theatre operators
- Cineplex Odeon Films, the film distribution unit of the Canadian cinema chain Cineplex Odeon Corporation
- List of Cineplex Odeon theatres, a list of Canadian movie theatres
- Odéon, a theater in Paris, France.
- Odeon of Herodes Atticus, built in 161 by Herodes Atticus in memory of his wife, Aspasia Annia Regilla, on the south slope of the Acropolis hill
- Odeon Cinemas, the largest cinema company in Europe.
- Odeon Leicester Square, a cinema which occupies the centre of the eastern side of Leicester Square, London,
- Odeon Records, a record label founded by Max Strauss and Heinrich Zunz in Berlin, Germany
- Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, Romania.
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