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Theater at Pompey
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first theater in Rome built under the notion that it would be built as a temple.
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scaena:
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The stage house. Permanent scenery.
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scaena frons:
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The façade on the stage house: Three stories. First story very ornate. Had wooden roof over the stage.
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Cavea:
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The audience seating area
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Vomitoria
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Passageways under the seats that allow audience get in an out more rapidly
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pulpitum
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The stage.
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Orchestra
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: the same shape as Hellenistic.
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Circus Maximus
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sat 250, 000 people. Huge oval theater
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“mime”
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short satyrical performance, variety, acrobats, juggling
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Phlyake
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: performers of mime
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None
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Fescennine Verses
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Obscene dialog limericks, at weddings, harvest ceremonies and parties
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Etruria
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country where Etruscans came from
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Histriones
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Etruscan actors
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Tarquin
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Etruscun ruler of Rome
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ludi Romani
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Ludi=word for festival
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Atellan farce (fabula Atellana)
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Short comedic pieces that occurred after dramas. Full of sex and violence
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The Republic
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(509 BCE-27 BCE) Same time as the ancient Greek. Republican virtues: as discipline, economy, endurance, military precision, defense, and loyalty. These virtues are what enabled Rome to become a world power. Great bureaucrats, each individual part of a whole. Everyone has their duty, duty and honor very important. Got to big to control, power and money led to corrupt.
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“Republican Values”
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as discipline, economy, endurance, military precision, defense, and loyalty
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The Empire
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27 BCE – 476 AD) Characterized by excess: excess, parties gladiators. Took over the entire Italian peninsula by (265 BBCE.)Started taking over Greek territories. Stole everything when they conquered. Not philosophical, new how to do it but did care about how it worked, or why it worked. More of a how to, than a why. Their art was very grand an epic but hollow, (things looked real but didn’t mean anything.) They had their own religion, which compared to Greek, and then absorbed new lands Gods.
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Livius Andronicus
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Roman litrerature
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Gnaeus Naevius
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Roman Dramatist, excelled in drama, but mostly comedy writer
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Titus Maccius Plautus
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Roman Comedies: Bawdy, wrote for an audience willing to listen to word and the plot. The Menachnae (mi) Twins base for The Comedy of Errors
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Publius Terentius
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TERENCE : Roman playwright wrote about contemplating the human condition,
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Quintus Ennius
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Roman Tragedy writer
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Lucius Seneca
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Roman Adaptations of Greek originals. Not sure if they were even performed but had a major influence in renaissance. Nine major devises used in Shakespeare’s work
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Theater at Pompey
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first theater in Rome built under the notion that it would be built as a temple.
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scaena
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Roman The stage house. Permanent scenery.
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None
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scaena frons
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Roman: The façade on the stage house: Three stories. First story very ornate. Had wooden roof over the stage.
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None
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Cavea
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Roman: The audience seating area
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None
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Vomitoria
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Roman theater;Passageways under the seats that allow audience get in an out more rapidly
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None
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pulpitum
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Roman The stage.
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None
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Orchestra
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: the same shape as Hellenistic.
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Circus Maximus
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sat 250, 000 people. Huge oval theater
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