C C 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aspendos, Epidaurus, Praetor
4 Jan 2017
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Festivals; festive spirit; saturnalia (december; inverting realitiy); things are set up. Commercialism; sponsorship by people running for office, successful generals. Inversion of reality: clever greek slaves, braggart soldiers, old and young folks; Theater buildings; greece (epidauros); orchestra (round half circle on the floor. Romans didn"t have permanent theater til 55 bc (theater of pompey in rome) Not on hillside, built in city from ground up with more integrated structure and. Became a competition between cities in elaborate and rich decoration. Rome is changing while traditions are being kept up. Roman theater building (aspendos, turkey, 2nd half of 2nd cent. Rome likes to use itself and other cultures to improve life styles; distrust because always worried about losing control. Mix of greek and roman domestic comedy not political. lovers, wily slaves), mime (simply acting things out without script); none highbrow, none written down. not complicated. romans combining things, change, intro new cultures, specific examples (the more the better)
