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Ancient Roman actors. Pages in category "Ancient Roman actors" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Clodius (or Claudius) Aesopus was the most celebrated tragic actor of Ancient Rome in time of Cicero, that is, the 1st century BC, but the dates of his birth and death are not known. His name seems to show that he was a freedman of some member of the Clodian gens. [1]
Roman mosaic depicting actors and an aulos player (House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii). The architectural form of theatre in Rome has been linked to later, more well-known examples from the 1st century BC to the 3rd Century AD. [1] The theatre of ancient Rome referred to a period of time in which theatrical practice and performance took place in ...
Licinia Eucharis (fl. 1st century BC) was an adolescent Ancient Roman stage actress, who died at the age of 14. [1] According to the epitaph on her tomb, which was written by her father, she was a star of the Theatre of ancient Rome. [1]
Roscius was born a slave in Lanuvium, about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Rome. Later he would encourage the legend that his nursemaid once found a snake coiled around him in his crib, a very auspicious omen, but Cicero scoffed at the veracity of this story. [3] His master sent him to be trained as an actor after observing his penchant for mimicry. [4]
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Gaius Ummidius Actius Anicetus was a Roman pantomime actor who lived in Pompeii. [1] [2] Actius is attested in an inscription from Puteoli that identifies him as a pantomime actor. [3] The possibility has been raised that Actius may be the freedman (libertus) of Ummidia Quadratilla who is discussed in the letters of Pliny the Younger.
Metrobius (Ancient Greek: Μητρόβιος; lived 1st century BC) was an actor and a talented singer, [1] in the Roman Republic. He was said to be the lover of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, the famed general and dictator. Metrobius is mentioned twice by Plutarch in his Parallel Lives, who clearly disapproves of his relationship with Sulla ...