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FINAL EXTINCTION OF GREEK TRAGEDY.

maintain a fitful and precarious existence for many generations afterwards, until at length all theatrical performances throughout the Eastern Empire were finally abolished by the Council of Trullo at the end of the seventh century^[1]

↑ P. E. Müller, Commentatio de genioaevi Theodosiani, p. 141. In the Western Empire theatrical exhibitions were never formally interdicted; but the public performance of such spectacles was brought to an end by the Lombard invasions, though they appear to have survived in private houses down to the time of the Renascence (Müller, ibid.).

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[1] P. E. Müller, Commentatio de genioaevi Theodosiani, p. 141. In the Western Empire theatrical exhibitions were never formally interdicted; but the public performance of such spectacles was brought to an end by the Lombard invasions, though they appear to have survived in private houses down to the time of the Renascence (Müller, ibid.).