Abstract

The aim of this paper is to defend the identification of the Iulius Pylades mentioned as the patron of Iulia Blanda in a funerary inscription from Rome now preserved at the Despuig collection of the Museu d’Història de la Ciutat de Palma (Mallorca) with C. Iulius Pylades, one of most outstanding pantomimes of Antiquity, credited with the creation of this dramatic genre. It is also argued that Iulia Blanda might have belonged to the theatrical troupe of Pylades because of her cognomen, which might have been a stage name.