1. Clownish figures appear in the farces and mimes of ancient Greece and Rome as foils to more serious characters

2. She was lively, and was fond of performing comic mimes with the dogs, as though they were performing in a circus."

3. The surviving poems by Theocritus that are generally held to be authentic comprise Bucolics (pastoral poetry), mimes with either rural or urban settings, brief poems in epic or lyric metres, and epigrams