Paris (actor under Domitian)
- Paris (actor under Domitian)
:"Not to be mistaken for Lucius Domitius Paris, an actor under Nero."
Paris was an actor in Rome in the 1st century AD.
Born in Egypt, he came to Rome in the reign of Domitian, where his skills as a pantomimus won him popular favour, noblewomen as lovers, influence within the imperial court and the power to promote his favourites within the court. That influence would seem to be demonstrated by the story of Juvenal's banishment to Egypt for attacking Paris. [Pseudo-Suetonius, vii.86-91, though this story is probably unreliable.]
His affair with Domitian's wife Domitia Longina led Domitian to divorce her and murder Paris, and even to kill one of Paris's pupils merely for looking like Paris and ordinary people for mourning Paris's death by placing flowers and perfumes on the site where he was murdered. [ [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/67*.html#3 Dio Cassius lxvii.3] ; [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Domitian*.html#3 Suet. Dom. 3] , [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Domitian*.html#10 10] ]
Martial composed "Epigram" xi.13 in Paris's honour, calling him "sales Nili" (wit of the Nile) and "Romani decus et dolor theatri" (ornament and grief of the Roman theatre-world). He is also recorded in Juv. vi.82-87 ["When Eppia, the senator's wife, ran off with a gladiator to Pharos and the Nile and the ill-famed city of Lagus, Canopus itself cried shame upon the monstrous morals of our town. Forgetful of home, of husband and of sister, without thought of her country, she shamelessly abandoned her weeping children; and--more marvellous still--deserted Paris and the games."] and was the subject of Philip Massinger's play "The Roman Actor". [http://www.rsc.org.uk/picturesandexhibitions/action/viewExhibition?exhibitionid=2§ionid=7]
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