("god out of a machine"), that is, the surprise intervention of an unforeseen external factor that changes the outcome of an event.

Roman

Following the expansion of the Roman Republic (509-27 BCE) into several Greek territories between 270 and 240 BCE, Rome encountered Greek tragedy. From the later years of the republic and by means of the Roman Empire (27 BCE-476 CE), theatre spread west across Europe,

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