T C 357: Comedy, Ancient and Modern

Roman Comedy in Performance: Some Images

The Roman Empire in the Mid-Second Century BCE

Greek and Roman Theaters

• The Greek Theater at Epidauros
  
• Rome's First Stone Theater: The Theater of Pompey (55 BC):
  Aerial view of neighborhood where Theater once was
  
• Reconstruction of the Theater of Marcellus
  

Theater in Southern Italy: An analogy for Roman Comedy?

• Actors on a raised stage
• Actors on a raised stage
  

Masks and Music

Comic and tragic masks and tibia, from a Roman mosaic

Remains of Roman tibiae

Timeline of Greek and Roman Masks

Scene of a comedy in performance, from a Roman painting

Scene of a comedy in performance, from a Roman relief sculpture

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