proscaenium

Updated: May 11, 2025

But it is reasonable to suppose that the rules of precedence were for the most part voluntarily observed. The stage itself is called pulpitum or proscaenium, and the decorated background scaena. Women and children were allowed to be present from the earliest period; slaves were not, though it is probable that many came by the permission of their masters.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius