Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater

By: Eric Csapo

ISBN-13: 9781118782880
ISBN-10: 1118782887
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published date: 2014-01-28
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.