Vita e Pensiero

Discussion of the written sources concerning the theatrical constructions in the city of Rome during the Republic and the reign of Augustus.

This paper deals with a passage from Solinus normally attributed to M. Varro and offers a new editorial solution.

The paper offers a summary of the two days’ work 7 and 8 November 2019 on the theme ‘going to theater in Rome in the first century B.C.’, about the epochal socio-political transformations that have changed dramatic genres, performing art, theatrical structures and collective sensitivity towards the theater in the Capital, influencing the peripheries...

This contribution focuses on the reception of the Roman tragedy of the archaic age, as can be retrieved from Cicero’s testimony, based on the attendance of theatrical representations and stimulated by the contiguity between the dramatic performance and that of the orator (as often emphasized by Cicero himself ), with regard, in particular, to vocal and gestural language and to the role played by pathos for the purpose of capturing the audience...

An epigraph from Cuma but nowadays lost commemorates Gnaeus Lucceius, author of Atellan comedies and exodia similar to those of Lucius Pomponius...

In this paper I aim to propose some reflections on the developments and transformations of Latin comic theatre during the first century BC, a period characterised, as we know, by an evident decline of the comoedia palliata and during which the public’s preferences are directed towards the togata and those comic genres that draw inspiration from the popular Greek and Italic tradition, such as mime and Atellanfarce, but that develop new forms with respect to their origins.

The aim of the present contribute is to provide an outline of the theatralical forms in Rome during the first century BC, collecting literary texts with contemporary archaeological sources, epigraphic documents and papyri...

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between Sulla and people of the stage, the evolution of luxuria concept in the generation after Sulla particularly focusing on Lucullus and at last the possible link between the conquest of the Hellenistic East accomplished by Pompey and the building of a permanent theatre in 55 BC.