Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in the arts and related occupations]
8. [people in the arts]
9. [people in the performing arts]
10. performing artists
11. actors (performing artists)

Anotations

Scope note:

Masked, comic actors referred to as "gossips" in farces adopted from Greek Middle Comedy plays and especially popular in southern Italy in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. Known principally from vase paintings, these are grotesque figures meant to satirize aspects of everyday life, or as burlesques of mythology.