Attic Red-figure Chorus Flashcards
What is a Chorus
Wine jug
What does it mean for it to be red figure
Figures are painted in red
Who is the artist
Unknown
What is the location
Vlastos collection, Athens
What is the significance
This is the only Attic vase which shows a a stage and portrays a theatre audience.
However, the drawing contains some reconstructed features since the vase is damaged and missing some of its finer details
What is the date
C.420 BC
Who could the people in the audience be
Choregos ad playwrite?
Judges?
Wealthy?
Representative of Dionysus?
Who is the actor on stage believed to be playing
Perseus( killed the gorgan medusa)
What is the actor holding
A sickle-used to cute head off of medusa
Bag-presumably contains the head of medusa
Why could there be no orchestra on the vase
Atheistic purpose- would take up too much space
Why is their only two people in the audience
Couldn’t fit a full audience.
One of the audience members could be women or a young man
What is the actor wearing
No mask
A body suit- indicated by the lines. He is ‘stage naked’ in this scene
