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Women in ancient Rome had different instruments from men. They played the harp, the aulos, and smaller lyres. [54] Domitian established contests that included music, gymnastics, and riding competitions. [55] [56] [57] Nero created the Quinquennial Neronia, which was a festival involving musical competitions. [58]
The Theatre of Nero (Latin: Theatrum Neronis) [1] was the private theatre erected in Rome by Nero, the Roman emperor between AD 53 and AD 68. [ 2 ] It was known only from literary sources until its remains were discovered in 2020.
In the 2nd century AD, Suetonius described the Roman emperor Nero as a player of the tibia utricularis. [6] Dio Chrysostom wrote in the 1st century of a contemporary sovereign (possibly Nero) who could play a pipe (tibia, Roman reedpipes similar to Greek and Etruscan instruments) with his mouth as well as by tucking a bladder beneath his armpit ...
Nero won every contest in which he was a competitor. During the games Nero sang and played his lyre on stage, acted in tragedies and raced chariots. He won a 10-horse chariot race, despite being thrown from the chariot and leaving the race. He was crowned on the basis that he would have won if he had completed the race.
Anonymous's The Tragedy of Nero (1624) published by Augustine Matthews [10] Víctor Balaguer's La Mort de Nerón (1894) Wilson Barrett's The Sign of the Cross; Robert Bridges's Nero: From the Death of Burrus to the Death of Seneca. Comprising the Conspiracy of Piso (1894) Pietro Cossa's Nero: A Play in Five Acts (1881) Amy Freed's You, Nero (2009)
Nero watched from his palace on the Palatine Hill, singing and playing the lyre. [25] Nero openly sent out men to set fire to the city. Nero watched from the Tower of Maecenas on the Esquiline Hill while singing. [26] Nero sent out men to set fire to the city. There were unconfirmed rumors that Nero sang from a private stage during the fire. [27]
Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. [2] Of note is that the signs attached to the feet of the condemned list their alleged crimes, and show the Alexamenos Graffito.
Musicians with cornua and a water organ, detail from the Zliten mosaic, 2nd century CE. The water organ or hydraulic organ (Greek: ὕδραυλις) (early types are sometimes called hydraulos, hydraulus or hydraula) is a type of pipe organ blown by air, where the power source pushing the air is derived by water from a natural source (e.g. by a waterfall) or by a manual pump.