Sociae Mimae

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Swedish. (September 2024) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Swedish Wikipedia article at [[:sv:Sociae Mimae]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|sv|Sociae Mimae}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Sociae Mimae was a guild for female stage artists, mimae (essentially singers, dancers and actresses), in Ancient Rome.^[1] It is the only Ancient Roman guild exclusively for women of which there is currently any information. The guild financed its own burial ground and was apparently not in any lack of funds but rather well off.

Citations

Sources

• Pat Easterling, Edith Hall: Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession
• John S. Kloppenborg, Stephen G. Wilson: Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World