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Chrysostom speaks in highly rhetorical terms about the harmful potential
of mime actresses to bring about the moral ruin of spectators. Taken
literally, Homily 7 on Matthew has been understood as testimony
of an unusual type of aquatic spectacle, termed tetim�mi,
the production of which has proven difficult to reconstruct from
archaeological evidence. Taken metaphorically, however, the aquatic
imagery in this homily is easily understood in the context of mime,
one of the most popular forms of entertainment on the stages of eastern
cities in late antiquity. A metaphorical reading of hom. 7 in Mt.
dispels the long-standing theory that theater orchestras were flooded
for the production of tetim�mi
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