page_title: Arbuscula
hierarchical_section_title: Arbuscula
caption_attribution_description: English: Published in "History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to the Our Times" (1898), but only in 35 de luxe copies. Depicts Roman actress Arbuscula.
context_page_description: Arbuscula was a woman stage performer of ancient Rome. She was a celebrated actor in pantomimes during the 1st century BCE, when most of the female parts at the time were played by men at least in tragedy.
  Cicero speaks of her in 54 AD as having been very successful, and having given him great pleasure. Horace mentions her as having been hissed and booed at by an audience, though it is said she did not care that the common people booed her, and remarked, "It is enough the knights still applaud me."
context_section_description: Arbuscula (1st century BCE) was a woman stage performer of ancient Rome. She was a celebrated actor in pantomimes during the 1st century BCE, when most of the female parts at the time were played by men at least in tragedy. 
  Cicero speaks of her in 54 AD as having been very successful, and having given him great pleasure. Horace mentions her as having been hissed and booed at by an audience, though it is said she did not care that the common people booed her, and remarked, "It is enough the knights still applaud me."
caption: Published in "History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to the Our Times" (1898)
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