What kind of shoes did Greek tragic actors wear?

Greek tragic actors wore “buskins,” boots that reached halfway up the calf and had thick soles to make the actors seem taller.

The Greek word for the boot was cothurnus. “Buskin” first appeared as the English term in the sixteenth century.

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