Abstract
This publication sets out to translate and thematically sort Choricius' Apologia Mimorum, a major literary testament to the lateantique ancient mime, written in the Christian milieu ofthe Rhetorical School of Gaza in the spirit of the antique literary tradition. I attempted to interpret the work in the framework of the known context of theatrical history, prove the popularity oftheatre in general and mime in particular in the Late Antique period of the Eastem Mediterranean as well the tendency to the demise of organised theatre in the Byzantine world and its relation to the subsequent development oftheatre in this territory.