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... Roman ruins . The Coliseum had many remarkable features . The arena could be flooded for the staging of mimic sea battles , which we'll talk about later . Underground were cellars where pris- oners were held for the combats and where ...
... Roman ruins . The Coliseum had many remarkable features . The arena could be flooded for the staging of mimic sea battles , which we'll talk about later . Underground were cellars where pris- oners were held for the combats and where ...
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... Roman drama suffered from the Roman taste for bigness . Quantity was likely to be more impressive than quality to the average Roman citizen . Parades and triumphal marches had a way of creeping into stage plays where they did not belong ...
... Roman drama suffered from the Roman taste for bigness . Quantity was likely to be more impressive than quality to the average Roman citizen . Parades and triumphal marches had a way of creeping into stage plays where they did not belong ...
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... Roman audience , accustomed to the roughhouse of Plautus . Terence was not a popular success , even priding himself upon writing for a limited audience . After a brief career he set out for the Greece he loved so much . Some writers ...
... Roman audience , accustomed to the roughhouse of Plautus . Terence was not a popular success , even priding himself upon writing for a limited audience . After a brief career he set out for the Greece he loved so much . Some writers ...
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