Aterana Drama - Ateranageki

...However, there were also plays in the Italian peninsula that were not directly influenced by Greek theatre. For example, the "versus Fescennini" (hereafter, all Latin spellings such as "play" are in the singular), the "satura", and the "fabula Atellana" from the Campania region of southern Italy were examples of these folk performing arts, consisting of singing, dancing, music, recitation, and humorous gestures, which were the primitive forms of theatre in the Italian peninsula. It is possible that it was only with this soil of folk and simple theatre that Greek theatre succeeded in becoming Romanized.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Atheran Drama" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…しかし，その影響を直接こうむっていない芝居もイタリア半島には存在した。例えば，〈フェスケンニウム歌versus Fescennini〉(以下，〈～劇〉等のラテン語綴りはすべて単数形で示す)，〈サトゥラsatura〉，南イタリアのカンパニア地方の〈アテラナ劇fabula Atellana〉などがそれで，これらの歌舞音曲や朗唱や滑稽な身ぶり等からなる民衆的な芸能が，イタリア半島における演劇の原始的形態であった。この土俗的で素朴な芝居の土壌があってはじめて，ギリシア演劇はローマ化することに成功したのだとも考えられる。…

※「アテラナ劇」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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