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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 ...
Boudica (or sometimes Boudica: Queen of War), is a British 2023 action drama film directed and written by Jesse V. Johnson. The film follows the eponymous Celtic warrior of the Iceni people , Boudica , in Roman Britain and how she revolted against the Romans after the death of her husband, Prasutagus .
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]
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The performers were the sons of Roman citizens who were allowed to serve in the army: professional actors were excluded. The simple prose dialogues were supplemented by songs in Saturnian metre, the common language, accompanied by lively gesticulation. The plays were characterized by coarseness and obscenity. [27]
She is mentioned as a famous stage actor within pantomime in several epigrams [3] [4] which praised her skill. [5] She appears to have been well known by her contemporaries. One of her most celebrated roles were the role of the male hero Hector of the Trojan War, which illustrates that women could play male parts on stage in antiquity. [2] [5]
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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.