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30 Απρ 2020 · This chapter provides an overview of the performance culture of ancient Greece and the roles played by women around the edges of that culture, before turning to the history of theatre in Rome where women, performing as mimae, captured the popular imagination.
11 Μαΐ 2016 · Actors and especially the ones who played the leading parts ("protagonists") were persons of high respect, not only to the Athenian society but worldwide. Some of them have been addressed as ambassadors.
4 Φεβ 2015 · If there were roles that were meant for women, male actors portrayed the women. Many great Greek playwrights were introduced during these celebrations, including Aeschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides .
zusai. Women of the theatre was an oxymoron, was it not? There were no women at all in Greek drama and theatre; even as dramatic characters, women were played by men. That is accepted history. The history of history, however, is a narrative of change: slow and reluctant at times,
14 Ιουλ 2016 · Plays were performed in an open-air theatre (theatron) with wonderful acoustics and seemingly open to all of the male populace (the presence of women is contested). From the mid-5th century BCE entrance was free.
Here the chorus, 12 or 15 men, took its place and remained throughout the play. The drama is poetic. Actors and chorus wear masks and in some cases elaborate costumes. The performers were all men and, initially two and later Sophocles made them three. They played all the parts between them.
There were only male actors, but masks allowed them to play female characters. The modern method to interpret a role by switching between a few simple characters goes back to changing masks in the theatre of ancient Greece.
