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latin name for great public games | |
these public games consisted of three things-munera gladiatoria, ludi circenses, and 'dramatic entertainments in a theater', which were called by what name? | |
Lower class people's sole desire, in the circus, according to Juvenal, was ________ | |
By the end of Reupblic, there were free entertainments often, giving holidays. there were ______(#) holdidays that Romans had annually | |
By this emperor's time, there were 135 days off | |
Dramatic performances consisted of farces, tragedies, comedies, and ______ | |
These two of the four in the previous question were the most popular with the people | |
Name one Roman who made a complete Roman comedy | |
Name the only other. | |
These two playwrights were around this time period | |
Their plays were adopted from ___(adjective pertaining to a certain nationality)plays | |
An average comedy required this many minutes for a performance | |
This played occasionally in between scenes | |
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only make-up in old days of Roman acting was this | |
Later, wigs came into use, with this colour being used for old men | |
this colour was used for young men | |
this colour was used for slaves | |
It was customary for the manager to give this for the actors when a performance was unusually successful | |
A stage always represented this in a comedy | |
Beginning in this year, efforts were made to improve the theater, which was then a crude temporary platform built at the foot of a hill | |
A separate section in the wooden theaters, which were temporarily erected for plays, had special seats for these people | |
this man in 55 b.c. in the Campus Martius built the first permanent theater at Rome | |
That man built it out of stone and patterned it off a theater which Pompey had seen on the island of Lesbos, at this city | |
Roman theaters, differently from Greek ones were erected on _____, as opposed to out of the side of a hill | |
In the front of the stage in Greek theater, this circular space was used, where choruses and actors performed | |
This many rows of seats (from 67 b.c.) were reserved for the knights behind the senators | |
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Augustus' nephew, called ___ had the second permanent theater constructed in his honour, in 13 b.c. | |
this theater was also constructed in 13 b.c., but could only fit about 7700 people | |
This Roman architect gives us a detailed plan of the theater | |
Latin name for the back of a stage | |
actors performed in this area (Latin name) | |
this entire area had seats for the spectators (this area was everything in the theater beyond the performing line(Latin name) | |
The senators took the first ____(#) rows | |
The seats behind these front rows are divided into six sections, called 'wedges', or in Latin, called _____ | |
The best seats were over a vaulted passageway through which the senators reached their seats---one side of the passageway was reserved for this important man | |
The other side was reserved for these six girls | |
tall masts were at the highest seats from which awnings, called _____,were spread to protect the audience from the sun | |
To hide the stage, a curtain was raised from this part of the stage | |
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