Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession

List of illustrations List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Maps Part I. The Art of the Actor: 1. The singing actors of antiquity Edith Hall 2. The musicians among the actors Peter Wilson 3. The use of the body by actors in tragedy and satyr-play Kostas Valakas 4. Towards a reconstruction of performance style Richard Green 5. Kallippides on the floor-sweepings: the limits of realism in classical acting and performance styles Eric Csapo 6. Looking for the actor's art in Aristotle G. M. Sifakis 7. Acting, action and words in New Comedy Eric Handley 8. 'Acting down': the ideology of Hellenistic performance Richard Hunter Part II. The Professional World: 9. Nothing to do with the technitai of Dionysus? Jane L. Lightfoot 10. Actors and actor-managers at Rome in the time of Plautus and Terence Peter G. McC. Brown 11. The masks on the propylon of the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias John Jory 12. Images of performance: new evidence from Ephesus Charlotte Roueche 13. Female entertainers in late antiquity Ruth Webb 14. Acting in the Byzantine theatre: evidence and problems Walter Puchner Part III. The Idea of the Actor: 15. Actor as icon Pat Easterling 16. Scholars versus actors: text and performance in the Greek tragic scholia Thomas Falkner 17. Orator and/et actor Elaine Fantham 18. Acting and self-actualisation in imperial Rome: some death scenes Catharine Edwards 19. The subjectivity of Greek performance Ismene Lada-Richards 20. The ancient actor's presence since the Renaissance Edith Hall Glossary List of works cited Index of major ancient passages cited General index.