Classical Studies 2300 Final: Classics Final Lecture.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2300
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

Theatre, chariot races and gladiators are the main spectacles: chariot races and gladiators were the most important, and then theatre was least popular. Textbook doesn"t say: theatre was the most common of the three spectacles. There were 176 days set aside for spectacles. 102 had theatre dominant, 64 had chariot races and only 10 of the days were gladiatorial combat dominant. All 10 gladiatorial combat days was in december. Romans everyone went to these festival days: men woman slaves. Once the romans contacted the greeks, roman performances started to adopt greek theatre. When romans/jews wrote a play, they wrote it in greek. Eventually, romans began to write in latin and then set the plays in greece: all of these plays occurred in a religious context. These people were infames couldn"t be in the upper class. Produced play to be sold = infame.