1st-century BC actors

1st century BC Roman tragedian

thumb|Arbuscula by Aubrey Beardsley. Illustration for History of Dancing from the Earliest Ages to the Our Times (1898) Arbuscula (; d. between 54 and 35 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.