Rome

Question 1

sanskrit and ancient rome happend simultaneously

Question 2

roman empire time

Answer 2

helenistic persiod 323-31bce
roman empire 27-476 ce

Question 3

Odeon

Answer 3

• stand alone theatres not using hilside
  -built more permanently
  -half circle orchestra
• closed backdrop

Question 4

Vomitoria

Answer 4

the exits & entrances around stage

Question 6

circus

Answer 6

long areana
- for chariot races

Question 7

Arena

Answer 7

like colosseum

• from the word sand (to soak up blood)

Question 8

Mime

Answer 8

• often improve
• associated with sex workers
• had women in it a lot
  -unmasked
• usually portraying lower classes

Question 9

Atellan Farce

Answer 9

• improvised, masked comedy
• og from Oscan region in Italy

Question 10

Pantomime

Answer 10

-non speaking
-less comedy
- gesture and dance

Question 11

Gladiators

Answer 11

• armed men and women 60 ce
• fight in ampitheaters
• were slaves, criminals, ppl who condemned to fight
  or volunteers from lower class
• gladiator schools
• bit of tension between Rome and christianity and theatre (christians condemned to fight)
• public spectator funded

actors/ gladiators/charioteers seen as ver low class

Question 12

Venationes

Answer 12

man vs beast fights

Venatio (singular)

Venatores (plural)

Beastiarii (the animals)

often ppl of social class (or under contract like skilled hunters)

at first animals were chained and fought and later allowed to roam free

All over empire to get these animals (had was to get them in theatre and raise them through the floor)

(in the first 100 days of colosseum being open (80 CE) 9000 animals were killed)

in 98 that number was surpassed 11,000?

loss of animals & change of environment

Question 13

PROBUS IN 281CE

Answer 13

created fake forest in ampitheater and invited audience to hunt

Question 13

septimus severus in 204 CE

Answer 13

“weird noah’s arc moment”

Question 13

Naumahiae

Answer 13

flood arena and do a naval fight to the death

Ceaser hosted this

sooo many ppl came that some people died of ppl crush / ppl would camp out to get a seat

merchants would set up to sell stuff around

one of these involved 19 thousand ppl

Question 14

Roman spectacles

Answer 14

more bloodthirsty and barbaric
- anti progressive
- soon became more upper class audience, expensive tickets
- theatre no longer for everyone but for the ‘elite’

Question 15

conspicuous consumption

Answer 15

the more you can consume (or spend) the more power you have??
showing off your wealth and your power

Question 16

plautus 254-184 bce

Answer 16

we have 20 out of 130 plays
- he adapted greek plays into roman norms
-tends to write rambuncous comedies about middle class families and their slaves
-lots of singing
-stock characters (ex: clever slave that will outwitt their master)

Miles Gloriousus:
- about pyrogroplinces (braggart warrior) whose a soldier who lies a lot to brag about himself
-thinks everyone loves him

shakespere and Moliere were fans of his

his use of prologues:
gives a lot of context about what was happening at the time & asks audience to pay attention

Question 17

Terence 185-159 BCE

Answer 17

Possibly the first playwright of colour (today’s Tunisia)
- used to be enslaved - freed due to his literary ability

-fewer dirty jokes
-more tasteful comedy
- borrowed heavily from Menander
- regular meter

wrote 6 plays (all survived)