The progress of pantomime:

Introduction: 22 BCEearly stars: Bathyllus and Pylades Exile of Pylades: 18 BCEReturn of Pylades: 18 BCEOther stars: Paris, Paris, and Paris 14 CE: mime riot I15 CE: mime riot II23 CE: mime riot III

Ludi AugustalesTiberius Drusus

Atellan farce and insulting the emperor

The riot at Pompeii

(Fresco showing riot from House of Actius Anicetus in Pompeii

Graffiti from Pompeii

“Campani victoria una cum Nucerinis peristis,

"O Campani [= residents of a neighborhood in Pompeii], you died together with the Nucerians in that victory,"

Roman mime artist

(3rd-4th century CE)

Mimes: their training and relationship to the elite:

Mark Antony and Brutus and CytherisMaecenas and Bathyllus Augustus and PyladesDomitia (wife of Domitian and Paris), etc. etc.

Numidia/Ummidia Quadratilla and her mimes

Greek mime artist

(100 BCE)

Tiberius, Drusus, the Ludi Augustales and the Great Mime Riots

14 CE: mime riot I15 CE: mime riot II23 CE: mime riot III

Mime artists (3 figures on the right; Roman 1st century CE)

Gaius Fundilius Doctus

Mime artist; 1st century CE; freedman of Fundillia for whom he set up a companion statue

Both found in the sanctuary of Diana at Nemi