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Rome was founded as a monarchy under Etruscan rule, and remained as such throughout the first two and a half centuries of its existence. Following the expulsion of Rome's last king, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, or "Tarquin the Proud," circa 509 BC, Rome became a republic and was henceforth led by a group of magistrates elected by the Roman people.
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.
The theatre was 111 m in diameter and was the largest and most important theatre in Ancient Rome; [2] it could originally hold between 11,000 and 20,000 spectators. [1] [2] A catalogue compiled at the end of the 4th century recorded that the theatre's seating capacity was 17,580 persons. [3]
Theatre of Balbus was an ancient Roman structure in the Campus Martius of Rome.It was built in 13 BC by proconsul Lucius Cornelius Balbus (minor), likely from the spoils of a military campaign by order of Augustus (Cassius Dio 54.18.2; Pliny the Elder, Natural History (Pliny) 36.59-60).
Emperor Nero is known to have placed his statue in the niche of the regia of the theatre at Palmyra. [7] The columns at the stage are decorated in the Corinthian order. [5] In the 1950s the theatre was cleared from the sand and subsequently underwent restoration. [8] The theatre hosted folk music performances for the annual Palmyra festival. [9]
The theatre of Italy originates from the Middle Ages, with its background dating back to the times of the ancient Greek colonies of Magna Graecia, in Southern Italy, the theatre of the Italic peoples and the theatre of ancient Rome. It can therefore be assumed that there were two main lines of which the ancient Italian theatre developed in the ...
The Teatro Valle (literally Valley Theater) is a theatre and former opera house in Rome, Italy. It was built in 1726 for the Capranica family. In the middle of the 19th century, it switched from staging opera and theatre to only performances of spoken drama. After closing down in 2010, it was squatted in 2011, then in 2014, the squatters were ...
Theatre or theater [a] is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.