The students had fun with these. I prepared this sheet:
LATIN
CLUB: ROMAN THEATER MASKS
Pick a stock character below for you mask. Work individually and create a
paper-plate mask for your story. Use one paper plate. Cut out eye holes and a
mouth. Decorate your mask so that the personality of the character is represented. Punch a hole on each side to attach a string
to wear the mask.
The
Parasite – parasitus
Leeches
off the main characters by emptying their tables
The Tricky Slave – Servus Callidus
Always
finds a solution to the young master’s love problems and
tends to earn his freedom for doing so
Young Lover – adulescens
Falls
in love with a girl he cannot have, Master of the tricky slave. Thinks of
nothing except the girl he is in love with
Courtesan – Meretrix
Serves
little more than as an object of the young lover’s affection, Sometimes she is a
slave, sometimes she turns out to be freeborn and marries the young lover.
Virgo – a young maiden
Love
interest of the adulescens, doesn’t get much stage time, beautiful and virtuous
with little personality.
Old man – Senex
Often
the father of the young lover, authority figure who gives wisdom to the young
man and is very traditional.
Braggart Soldier – Miles Gloriosus
Loves himself more than anything else
Very stupid, cowardly, and gullible
Interested
in the same girl as the adulescens most of the time
Maid/nurse – Ancilla
Minor
character used as a tool and messenger
Matrona – Mother
Loves her children but is temperamental towards her
husband
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