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Thespis
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.5|Base for a statue of Thespis in the Theatre of Dionysus, 2nd century BC. thumb|200px|''Thespis' wagon'', relief of the Giotto's Belltower in [[Florence, Italy, Nino Pisano, 1334–1336]]
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 0600-01-01
- Died
- 0560-00-00
- Works
- 1
Top works
- A review of the Rev. Thomas Smyth's two sermons against theatres
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- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 5
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 600 BCE
- Died
- 560 BCE
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Ikarion
- Occupation
- stage actor
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Image
- Formella 15, il carro di Tespi (Theatrica), nino pisano, 1334-1336.JPG
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- P6886
- Ancient Greek
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thumb|upright=1.5|Base for a statue of Thespis in the Theatre of Dionysus, 2nd century BC. thumb|200px|''Thespis' wagon'', relief of the Giotto's Belltower in [[Florence, Italy, Nino Pisano, 1334–1336]]
Thespis (; ; fl. 6th century BC) was a stage actor in Ancient Greece. He was born in the ancient city of Icarius (present-day Dionysos, Greece). According to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, he was the first human to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead of speaking as himself). In other sources, he is said to have introduced the first principal actor in addition to the chorus. He is often called the "Inventor of Tragedy". His name is the origin of the word "thespian", meaning actor.