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PDFl. c.; Liv. xxxix. 22). Dramatic recitations
were by no means excluded from these mixed entertainments,
since among the players whom Lucius Anicius caused
to appear in 587 in Rome, tragedians are expressly
mentioned; there was however no exhibition of plays
in the strict sense, but either whole dramas, or perhaps
still more frequently pieces taken from them, were
declaimed or sung to the flute by single artists.
This must accordingly have been done also in Rome;
but to all appearance for the Roman public the main
matter in these Greek games was the music and dancing,
and the text probably had little more significance
for them than the texts of the Italian opera for the
Londoners and Parisians of the present day. Those
composite entertainments with their confused medley
were far better suited for the Ionian public, and
especially for exhibitions in private houses, than
proper scenic performances in the Greek language;
the view that the latter also took place in Rome cannot
be refuted, but can as little be proved.
45. V. XI. Sciences of General Culture at This Period
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