. Andria, et Heauton timorumenos. Edited with an introd. and notes by Andrew F. West . regularly (except in the Heauton timorumenos) a streetscene in Athens, Three doors, at nearly equal distances, facedupon the stage, They were the doors of three houses. Thetwo houses on tlie left were usually immediately adjoining,The third is placed at the right side of the stage, Thesethree face on the via, or public street, Running back be-tween them is an anr/iportum, or narrow street, which led tothe forum (the ayopa) near the Acropolis, or else towardsthe Piraeus, the seaport of Athens, On this main vi
. Andria, et Heauton timorumenos. Edited with an introd. and notes by Andrew F. West . regularly (except in the Heauton timorumenos) a streetscene in Athens, Three doors, at nearly equal distances, facedupon the stage, They were the doors of three houses. Thetwo houses on tlie left were usually immediately adjoining,The third is placed at the right side of the stage, Thesethree face on the via, or public street, Running back be-tween them is an anr/iportum, or narrow street, which led tothe forum (the ayopa) near the Acropolis, or else towardsthe Piraeus, the seaport of Athens, On this main via theplay was acted, and the various characters entered tlie stageeither from the house doors or by the angiportum. Occa-sionally, but not frequently, they entered from the wings,as in the instance where Davus, in the Andria, runs aroundthe square and returns. The actors were al-ways men. They werein costurae and dis-guised by masks. Themask was furnishedwith a resonant m outh-piece to increase theeffect of the actorsvoice, The color ofthe hair helped to in-dicate in what role theB. COMIC MASKS. xxu INTRODUCTION. actor appeared. White liair indicated a senex, black hair anadulescens, and red hair a seruos. The mask was so fashionedas to stand for some leading emotion, and the fixed look ofalarm, or rage, or joy, with which the actor entered the stage,remained unchanged until his mask was shifted at the eudof the scene or act. Ordinarily not more than three principal, or speaking act-ors were allowed to be present simultaneously before theaudience. This tradition was inherited from the Greeks. The music was of a simple sort, and was performed ontwo tibiae, or flute-like pipes, by one performer, the this musician there was the cantor, a singer who sangsuch parts of the play as were arranged for musical accompa-niment. These lyrical bursts, which are far less common inTerence than in Plautus, were called cantica. In these thetibicen played the music, the cantor rec
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