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Eucharis would most likely have primarily performed as a dancer, as few other roles were open to women. [2] Her epitaph states that she had recently danced at "the games of the nobles", [3] [4] and that she had performed on the Greek stage before the People. [5] Eucharis was originally a slave, then a freedwoman, of the Roman woman Licinia. [6]
An ivory statuette of a Roman actor of tragedy, 1st century. A Roman actor playing Papposilenus, marble statue, c. 100 AD, after a Greek original from the 4th century BC. No early Roman tragedy survives, though it was highly regarded in its day; historians know of three early tragedians—Ennius, Pacuvius and Lucius Accius. One important aspect ...
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The Pax Romana (Latin for ' Roman peace ') is a roughly 200+-year-long period of Roman history which is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman imperialism, relative peace and order, prosperous stability, hegemonic power, and regional expansion. This is despite several revolts and wars, and continuing competition with Parthia.
Imperia Cognati (also called Imperia La Divina, meaning Imperia The Divine, or The Queen of Courtesans, 3 August 1486 – 15 August 1512 [1]), was a Roman courtesan. She has been considered the first celebrity of the class of courtesans, which was created in Rome in the late 15th century.
Nephele sits at Mercury's feet; a Roman fresco from the eastern wall of the triclinium in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, Fourth Style (60–79 AD). Janus, double-faced or two-headed god of beginnings and endings and of doors. Juno, Queen of the gods, goddess of matrimony, and one of the Dii Consentes. Equivalent to Greek Hera.
The veneration of St Genesius continues today, and the actor-martyr is considered the patron of actors and acting societies, including those that assist actors. The British Catholic Stage Guild regards him as their patron saint , and the Shrine of St. Genesius in Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church in the New York City Borough of Manhattan ...
The chapel at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, is also dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace. [6] St. Mary, Queen of Peace Basilica is the pro-cathedral of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum in Kerala, India. Queen of Peace Cemetery of the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre in Old Westbury, New York opened in ...