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I don't even know what the name of it was – but

it was dealing with a murder and looking at

bodies and taking pictures of dead bodies and

trying to solve this crime and that crime. Well,

those were the same themes during the early

church time – revenge, sexual immorality,

indecent language, murder. We could go on and

on with a list of synonyms. The dramatic arts

took its rise in Athens amid the orgies of

Bacchus. The Roman theater was mostly a copy

of the Greek theater, and, again, they all began

with religious festivals and activities, and as

time went on, they drifted from that to some

extent. “The Roman stage was essentially a

pagan institution, and it remained such in spirit

long after the triumph of Christianity,” and that's

a quote from another author. As a general rule,

the theater was the largest building in the

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