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Female musicians, dancers, and singers would perform at a festival for the goddess Isis who had a temple in Rome. [21] They would also perform at a festival dedicated to the Bona Dea. [22] Several ancient Roman monuments were consecrated by musicians. [23] [24] The Salian priests would dance and sing while moving through the city in honor of Mars.
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 ...
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]
Pages in category "Women singers from the Holy Roman Empire" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
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 ...
With the advent of social media over the last decade or so, fans around the world have been given unprecedented "access" to their favorite musicians while also becoming more connected to fellow ...
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Dionysia (1st-century BC), was an ancient Roman dancer-actress. Dionysia was evidently a famous stage artist in Ancient Rome, as her name was known enough to be used in public debate. She is one of few female stage artists from antiquity of which there is specific sums of a notably great income, an example used in research that elite actresses ...