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...(Roman comedies on Greek subjects and based on Greek models), actors wore chitons and the pallium, a cloak resembling the himation. In the subsequent, similar fabula togata, actors were costumed in the mantle and toga. The heroes of plays dealing with Roman history, called fabulae praetextatae, wore togas...
...well-constructed plots, and Sextus Turpilius, who kept close to Greek models, are other prominent representatives. By the mid-2nd century bc, the fabula palliata had been replaced by the fabula togata (from the Roman toga, “play in Roman dress”), but no complete work survives of this naturalized Roman comedy. It is through the fabulae palliatae of Plautus and...
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