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Ludi scaenici vs. ludi circenses
ludi Romaniludi plebiiludi Apollinares ludi Megalenses ludi florales
FabulaFabula praetextaMimePantomimeAtellan farceCytherisLaberius
Tessera
Nero’s ludi maximi
Mosaic showing a comic actor playing a slave (Roman, 1st century CE)
Comic scene (2 women consult a sorceress; Roman, 1st century CE; from the ‘Villa of Cicero’, Pompeii
Mosaic from Pompeii showing Roman actors
Ivory statue of a tragic actor playing a woman
(Roman; late 2nd century CE)
Terracotta figure of a comic actor
Campania, 150 BCE
Reconstruction of Pompey’s theatre/temple complex (55 BCE)
You know all about the rest of the games, which hadn't even that amount of charm which less lavish games usually have: for the spectacle was so elaborate as to leave no room for cheerful enjoyment, and I think you need feel no regret at having missed it. For what is the pleasure of a procession of six hundred mules in the Clytemnestra, three thousand bowls in the Trojan Horse, or brightly coloured armour of infantry and cavalry in some battle? These things roused the admiration of the mob; to you they would have brought no delight.
Cicero to Marcus Marius
Theatre of Marcellus (11 BCE)
Porticus of Octavia, next to the theatre of Marcellus
Roman theatre, Orange, France
Roman theatre. Amman, Jordan
Theater ticket/tessera (100-200 CE)
The Fall of Icarus
(Roman wall painting, Pompeii, 1st century CE)
“Icarus, on the first try, fell next to Nero’s seat and splattered him with blood.”