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This work examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theatre in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire. The book presents a highly original viewpoint into several new and contested fields of study and offers a systematic survey of evidence for the spread of theatre outside Athens.

Acting --- Actors --- Theater --- History --- Stage actors --- Theater actors --- Theatrical actors --- Artists --- Entertainers --- Histrionics --- Stage --- Elocution

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This is the second volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on theatre culture in Attica (Rural Dionysia) and the rest of the Greek world. It presents and discusses in detail all the documentary and material evidence for theatre culture and dramatic production from the first two centuries of theatre history, namely the period c.500 to c.300 BC. The traditional assumption is laid to rest that theatre was an exclusively or primarily Athenian institution, with the inclusion of all sources of information for theatrical performances in twenty-two deme sites and over one hundred and twenty independent Greek (and some non-Greek) cities. All texts are translated and made accessible to non-specialists and specialists alike. The volume will be a fundamental work of reference for all classicists and theatre historians interested in ancient theatre and its wider historical contexts.

Theater --- Greek drama --- History --- History and criticism.

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Classical literature --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Antiquity --- Classical drama - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Theater - History - To 500. --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Theater - Greece. --- Theater - Rome. --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classical drama --- Theater --- Civilisation ancienne --- Théâtre ancien --- Théâtre --- Sources --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Greek drama --- Ancient civilization --- Theory, etc --- Ancient presentation --- Presentation, Ancient --- Theory, etc.

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Théâtre ancien --- Théorie, etc. --- Théâtre ancien --- Théorie, etc. --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Classical drama --- Rites and ceremonies --- Theater --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History --- Classical Greek literature --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Greece --- Théâtre --- Rites et cérémonies --- Civilisation ancienne --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire

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Our knowledge of the ancient theatre is limited by the textual and iconographic character of the evidence available to us: we cannot watch or otherwise experience an Athenian tragedy or comedy. These essays, by a distinguished group of international scholars, bridge the gap between the surviving literary and iconographic evidence and the realities of performance on the ancient Greek stage. This ambitious goal is reached by means of a detailed examination of several case-studies: the construction of dramatic space in Sophocles’ Antigone; the significance of the use of deictic pronouns in Sophocles’ Trachiniae; the theatrical and religious dynamics of the appearance of divine figures on stage; the relationship between the victory celebrations at the end of Aristophanic comedies and their counterparts in the after-performance real world; the investigation of nude or semi-nude female characters in Aristophanes; the staging of Clouds and the opening scene of Acharnians; the meditation on the metapoetics of the use of props in 5th-century comedy; the relationship between performance context and text through a close reading of a number of Aristophanic fragments; the way the scholia vetera on Frogs imagine and use questions of staging practice; and the potential Aeschylean authorship of some of stage-direction traceable in Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Diktoulkoi.

Greek dram --- Theater --- History and criticism --- History