Affiliation:
1. latin, University College London
Abstract
Abstract
In the period roughly between the fifth and third centuries BCE, Italy saw a diverse range of public performance types and traditions, all of which were in different ways precursors of the main forms of dramatic performance known for Rome. This chapter covers performances of Greek characters in Italy and Sicily, as well as the traditions among the Etruscans, Oscans, and other peoples in Italy (notably the fabulae Atellanae and Rhinthonica). Such a perspective makes it possible to identify further possible links (beyond the Greek model) to the later situation in republican Rome, after dramatic performances with a coherent plot were introduced.
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