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Latin literature VI: Theater Posted by on Mar 26, 2012

Latin comedy masks

The genre of theater in Rome had a double origin. On the one hand dramatic poetry was born in Greece in the heat of religious festivals in honor of Dionysus. On the other hand in the preliterate period there were a variety of theatrical performances of indigenous nature, as the fable atelana, mime, etc.. We…

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