I have been finding out much about Roman entertainment and I'm finding it very interesting I have found out about playwrights and other history of Rome.
INFORMATION
Although these days theatre entertainment is known as both relaxing, funny and exciting in Ancient Rome entertainment needed to be exciting and for Romans exciting wasn't like it is today. Rude language, sexual poses, bloody violence, criminals killed on stage. Watching acts like this were thought of as appropriate in the average Roman lifestyle.
Violent entertainment was the most popular of all entertainments, thousands of spectators would watch:
- Animals killed.
- Fights between people and animals
- Fights between people and people
- Fights between animals and animals
Violence was very popular in Ancient Rome unlike today's lifestyle where violence is unwanted in most places of the world.
Although alot of the entertainment was bloodthirsty there were many playwrights in that time such as:
- Plauus-3rd century
- Terance-170-160 BC
- Gaius Maecenas Melissus-1st Century
- And other famous playwrights from Rome
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ancient Rome 2005, Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Wikimedia foundation, viewed 1st of march 2010, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rome
Well done. You write well and have found some useful information. You are obviously on track and coping well.
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