Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and
their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical
Greece to the Roman Empire
* Presents a highly original viewpoint into several new and
contested fields of study
* Offers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spread
of theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion of
theater upon actors and dramatic literature
* Addresses a study of the privatization of theater and reveals
how it was driven by political interests
* Challenges preconceived notions about theater history
Table of Content
List of illustrations vi
Preface viii
List of abbreviations xiii
1 A Portrait of the Artist I: Theater-Realistic Art in Athens,
500-330 BC 1
2 A Portrait of the Artist II: Theater-Realistic Art in the
Greek West, 400-300 BC 38
3 The Spread of Theater and the Rise of the Actor 83
4 Kallippides on the Floor Sweepings: The Limits of Realism in
Classical Acting 117
5 Cooking with Menander: Slices from the Ancient Home
Entertainment Industry? 140
6 The Politics of Privatization: A Short History of the
Privatization of Drama from Classical Athens to Early Imperial Rome
168
Bibliography 205
Index 227
About the author
Eric Csapo is Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney, Australia. An expert in ancient drama and in the material, social and economic history of the ancient theatre, Csapo is the author of Theories of Mythology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005) and co-editor of Context of Ancient Drama (with W. J. Slater, 1995) and The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Elsewhere: From Ritual to Drama (with M. Miller, 2006).
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