Ancient Roman Theatre came about by means of borrowing ideas from the Greek and elaborated on them by adding some of their ideas and perspectives to the theatre. Historians believed that Roman Theatre however had less philosophy traits and was filled with more drama in terms of entertainment, it is said by historians that their entertainment was more magnificent or melodramatic. Their actors and or performers were called Histriones, this meant that the actors/performers would be overly dramatic. Greek had a major effect on Ancient Roman Theatre and not just in general but they took from Greek the structure of the theatre as
