Isodice (8/26/99 2:18:24 am) Bacchylides
What do we know of this supposedly fine actor?
Herodotus (8/26/99 6:04:03 am) Explanations
The witness in the theatre (who is he?) says that the victim was still alive when Bacchylides was reading his poem. Why was the performance of the great actor so poor? Was his mind on other things? Or could it have been another person who was reading the poem?
Isodice (8/26/99 9:11:17 am) Re: Explanations
I wonder how easy it would have been for someone else to have replaced him on stage? I also note that the witness left at the start of the poem, and these are long poems.
Demetrius (8/26/99 8:11:18 pm)
Re: Bacchylides
Council members! I have more news....a letter from a banker friend of mine in Crete was in my home. It read that Bacchylides is in great debt and I am advised NOT to lend further funds to his troupe.
Demetrius the banker
Demetrius (8/27/99 12:55:41 am) Re: Bacchylides
It would have been very ease to replace him. Remember that the actors wear masks and large costumes. The size of the theatre is such that from the front row the actor must appear to be like 4 inches high and from the back row they are even smaller.
Isodice (8/27/99 5:57:27 am) Re: Bacchylides
So, if indeed it wasn't Bacchylides and he was free to move about the theatre, what would that mean?
Herodotus (8/28/99 4:50:17 am) Two questions
Who was impersonating Baccchlylides? He must have known of the scheme.
Was Bacchylides using his acting talents elsewhere, by also impersonating someone?
Hippocrates (8/29/99 4:30:43 pm)
Bacchylides
Of what significance is it that Bacchylides and his troupe are in town just recently arrived from Crete? Have we not suspected the alleged priest to be a Crete?
Hippocrates (8/29/99 4:32:28 pm)
Correction...
We suspect that the priest may have been a Cretan, not a Crete.