How they were Entertained
The Romans enjoyed music and dancing
In Common Families the favourite instruments included:
pipes
flutes
cymbals
castanets
Rich and well educated people prefered quieter and more gentle instuments such as the Lyre usually played to accomponey poets or singers.Roman buskers usually played music in the streets or also could be hired to preform at private parties for the rich and higher class .
The Romans enjoyed going to plays at the theater. Plays that where shown where Comic plays, as they were funny made people laugh and had a happy ending, Tragedies, were more serious and usually ended with misery or suffering. The Romans had also invented clowns and mimes, which is a story told without words, through gestures and acrobatic movement and dance.
All These plays were orginally part of religious festival in Ancient Pompeii.
They showed scenes from anceint myths and legends usually writen on things about pollitics
Actors wore masked to help the audience in the big theater to see what the characters where feeling. They were carved with bright colours with larger then life expresions also showing anger and sadness in the mask.
Games skills and chance
Roman adults and children enjoyed playing knucklebones they played for fun but the older residents also made bets who could win for money.
Actors were almost all men. the women could not stand close to stage as they thought they would try and arrange a date with on of the male stars.
They also went to watch gladiators fight in the area,
Where they went
For entertainment, there were two theaters, a sports field or Palaestra, and an amphitheater. For the theaters, one was an open-air theater that held up to five thousand people, and the other was a roofed, smaller theater that was used for shows or concerts. The amphitheater was for entertainment through violence (e.g. gladiatorial combats and wild animal hunts), and could hold every citizen and inhabitant of Pompeii, as well as visitors from nearby towns.
The Amphitheartre of Pompeii wasBuilt around 70 BC, the current amphitheatre was the first to be built out of stone, previously, they had been built out of wood. The next Roman amphitheatre to be built from stone would be the Colloseum in Rome, which postdates it by over a century. It was called a spectacula and not an amphitheatrum, since the latter term was not yet in use. It was built with the private funds of Quinctius Valgus and Marcius Porcius. This is where they went to see shows and be entertained.
The Romans enjoyed music and dancing
In Common Families the favourite instruments included:
pipes
flutes
cymbals
castanets
Rich and well educated people prefered quieter and more gentle instuments such as the Lyre usually played to accomponey poets or singers.Roman buskers usually played music in the streets or also could be hired to preform at private parties for the rich and higher class .
The Romans enjoyed going to plays at the theater. Plays that where shown where Comic plays, as they were funny made people laugh and had a happy ending, Tragedies, were more serious and usually ended with misery or suffering. The Romans had also invented clowns and mimes, which is a story told without words, through gestures and acrobatic movement and dance.
All These plays were orginally part of religious festival in Ancient Pompeii.
They showed scenes from anceint myths and legends usually writen on things about pollitics
Actors wore masked to help the audience in the big theater to see what the characters where feeling. They were carved with bright colours with larger then life expresions also showing anger and sadness in the mask.
Games skills and chance
Roman adults and children enjoyed playing knucklebones they played for fun but the older residents also made bets who could win for money.
Actors were almost all men. the women could not stand close to stage as they thought they would try and arrange a date with on of the male stars.
They also went to watch gladiators fight in the area,
Where they went
For entertainment, there were two theaters, a sports field or Palaestra, and an amphitheater. For the theaters, one was an open-air theater that held up to five thousand people, and the other was a roofed, smaller theater that was used for shows or concerts. The amphitheater was for entertainment through violence (e.g. gladiatorial combats and wild animal hunts), and could hold every citizen and inhabitant of Pompeii, as well as visitors from nearby towns.
The Amphitheartre of Pompeii wasBuilt around 70 BC, the current amphitheatre was the first to be built out of stone, previously, they had been built out of wood. The next Roman amphitheatre to be built from stone would be the Colloseum in Rome, which postdates it by over a century. It was called a spectacula and not an amphitheatrum, since the latter term was not yet in use. It was built with the private funds of Quinctius Valgus and Marcius Porcius. This is where they went to see shows and be entertained.