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Crash Course Theater
Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater,
Season 1
Episode 5
Today, Mike Rugnetta takes you from our beginnings in ancient Greek theater, and moves on to the development of Roman theater. Which, it turns out, is A LOT like Greek theater. Because the Romans were real Grecophiles, they modeled their plays on the Greeks.
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