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 | | As a compromise, drama continued to presented at various religious festivals, but the theaters were all temporary structures, put up just before the peformances and taken down afterwards. |
 | | In 154 BC a third attempt was made to build a permanent stone theater, but the consul, P. Scipio Nasica, caused the unfinished structure to be torn down as "undesirable" and "harmful to public morals" (Livy, Periochae 48.68). |
 | | There must, however, have still been some opposition, for the theater was constructed in such a way that it could be seen as serving a religious purpose rather than for mere entertainment. |
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