Reading Guide for Roman Theatre

This is just a guide, not an exhaustive outline of the chapter.

• the ‘republican virtues’



• ludi



• Plautus
  


• Terence
  


• Seneca
  


• Atellan farce
  


• stock characters
  


• other entertainments


• circuses



• naumachaie



• gladiatorial contests



• chariot racing
  
  
• audience behavior
  


• temporary theatres
  


• cavea
  


• scaena
  


• pulpitum
  


• scaena frons
  


• periaktoi
  


• influence of Christianity
  


• influence of Islam

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