The progress of pantomime: Introduction: 22 BCE early stars: Bathyllus and Pylades Exile of Pylades: 18 BCE Return of Pylades: 18 BCE Other stars: Paris, Paris, and Paris 14 CE: mime riot I 15 CE: mime riot II 23 CE: mime riot III Ludi Augustales Tiberius Drusus Atellan farce and insulting the emperor

The riot at Pompeii (Fresco showing riot from House of Actius Anicetus in Pompeii

Graffiti from Pompeii “Campani victoria una cum Nucerinis peristis, "O Campani [= residents of a neighborhood in Pompeii], you died together with the Nucerians in that victory,"

Roman mime artist (3rd-4th century CE)

Mimes: their training and relationship to the elite: Mark Antony and Brutus and Cytheris Maecenas and Bathyllus Augustus and Pylades Domitia (wife of Domitian and Paris), etc. etc. Numidia/Ummidia Quadratilla and her mimes

Greek mime artist (100 BCE) Tiberius, Drusus, the Ludi Augustales and the Great Mime Riots 14 CE: mime riot I 15 CE: mime riot II 23 CE: mime riot III

Mime artists (3 figures on the right; Roman 1st century CE)

Gaius Fundilius Doctus Mime artist; 1st century CE; freedman of Fundillia for whom he set up a companion statue Both found in the sanctuary of Diana at Nemi