Rome Review Flashcards
WHEN ROME
500BCE
WHEN ROMAN EMPIRE
27-476 CE
ODEON
- Stand-alone theatre
- closed unified building
- stone not wood
- built more permanently
- half circle orchestra
- shift the backdrop to a more permanent staging
- 1st permanent 55 BCE
Vomitoria
entrances and exits around the stage
*think flow in & flow out
Ampitheatres
ex. Coliseum
- SPORTS
- OLYMPICS
circus
- long skinny arena
- chariot races
Roman spectacles - Atellan Farce
- religious improvised, masked comedy
OG Oscin religion Italy
Roman spectacles - Mime
- women
- unmasked, improvised entertainment
- associated with sex workers
- mime actress = sex worker
- bawdy humour, lives of the lowest classes
Pantonime
- non-speaking
- less comedic
- stories told by gesture and dance using masks and movement
Gladiators 60 CE
- staged violence
- armed men and women
- fight in ampitheatres
- slaves, prisoners, condemned to fight
- gladiator schools
- Christian martyrs condemned to fight
- low class volunteers to fight
- public spectacle funded
Emfamy status
- actors
- gladiators
- charioters
- Venatores
ALL are considered low class
Venationes
Ventio
Venatores
Man vs beast
Venatores vs beastiarii
Travel all over the empire to get the animal
How many animals killed in first 100 days of colloseum open? 80 CE
9000 animals
98 CE, Emporor Trajan had how many animals killed
11, 000 animals
Theatre in the amphitheatre moments
204 BCE - Noah’s ark moment
281 CE - Forest inside with audience participation
Effect of Animal slaughter
PERMANENTLY ALTEREd ECO SYSTEMS
extinction
near extinction
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WATER BATTLES AT THE COLOSSEUM AMPITHEATRE
SHIP BATTLES INSIDE
- mini industry surrounded colosseum
- death within the audience
- camped out for spots
Why did Rome become so bloodthirsty?
- anti progressive
- exlusive
- upper class, elite audience
Shift in value
BYYYYEEEE GREEK DEMOCRACY
Conspicuous consumption
HOW MUCH CAN YOU FLEX TO SHOW HOW POWERFUL YOU ARE
Plautus 254 - 184 BCE
- 130 plays
- we have 20 plays
- Adapted Ancient Greek plays to Roman tastes
- RAMBUNCTIOUS comedies
- fluffy
- middle class people
- Stock characters : clever slave outwits master
Shakespeare & Moliere fans of him
Miles Gloriosus
THE BRAGGART WARRIOR
comedy
- fought elephant
- children live to 1000
- believes everyone loves him
Plautus 254 - 184 BCE
Prologues
tells audience to behave
- listen closely
- encourages them to like and admire plays
SO MANY OTHER FORMS AVAILABLE TO ROMANS
- this forces Plautus to sell himself and set up audience expectations
Terence 185 - 195 BCE
First playwright of colour
- FORMER SLAVE
- master so impressed by intelect he freed him
6 PLAYS
- borrowed heavily from Menander, greek new comedy
- 25 left Athens to explore world
Less rowdy, more classy
