Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession Book

	List of illustrations
	List of contributors
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
	Maps
1	The singing actors of antiquity	3
2	The musicians among the actors	39
3	The use of the body by actors in tragedy and satyr-play	69
4	Towards a reconstruction of performance style	93
5	Kallippides on the floor-sweepings: the limits of realism in classical acting and performance styles	127
6	Looking for the actor's art in Aristotle	148
7	Acting, action and words in New Comedy	165
8	'Acting down': the ideology of Hellenistic performance	189
9	Nothing to do with the technitai of Dionysus?	209
10	Actors and actor-managers at Rome in the time of Plautus and Terence	225
11	The masks on the propylon of the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias	238
12	Images of performance: new evidence from Ephesus	254
13	Female entertainers in late antiquity	282
14	Acting in the Byzantine theatre: evidence and problems	304
15	Actor as icon	327
16	Scholars versus actors: text and performance in the Greek tragic scholia	342
17	Orator and/et actor	362
18	Acting and self-actualisation in imperial Rome: some death scenes	377
19	The subjectivity of Greek performance	395
20	The ancient actor's presence since the Renaissance	419
	Glossary	435
	List of works cited	441
	Index of major ancient passages cited	479
	General Index	484