Latin 4/530
November 7, 2016
Late Republican Theater

• Collegium Poetarum (Temple of Hercules Musarum)
  
• elite playwrights (Asinius Pollio, Cassius, Cicero, Julius Caesar); lex Roscia theatralis of 67 BCE (tribune L. Roscius Otho; cf. special senatorial seating at Ludi Romani, 194 BCE)
  
• increased days of ludi; revivials of Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius
• celebrity tragic actors (Aesopus, Roscius)
• Theater of Pompey (Temple of Venus Victrix), 55 BCE
  
  
  
  
  
• Theater of Curio, 53 BCE