Greek Theatre prescribed sources Flashcards
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Pronomos vase
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- volute krater depicting Pronomos (famous Theben aulos-player) and Demetrios, playwright
- 410BC
- Southern Italy
- Depicts tragic actors + chorus members
- Dionysus featured with consort Ariadne
- Cast holding victory wreaths - winning production
- Some dressed as Satyrs
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Perseus Dance Vase
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- 420 BC
- show comic actor Perseus, two audience members watching the play (maybe judges),
- Perseus is holding medusa’s head (funny because it’s flimsy)
- Actor is wearing a nude suit + there is props
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Tragic Actors Dressing Vase
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- 450BC
- identical masks indicate they are chorus members
- evidence men play female roles, evidence of what happens behind the skene, evidence for tragic masks + costumes
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What is kothorni?
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Boots
5
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The flight of Medea
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- 400 BC
- krater
- Children lie dead on alter, Jason approaches from the left - makes eye contact with medea
- alter to dionysus located in the orkistra
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Cheiron Vase
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- 380 - 370 BC
- bell krater
- Cheiron the centaur is being healed by Apollo after being blinded by the arrows of Hercules
- Xanthius helped Cheiron up the stairs
- Possibly Achilles on the far right
- two nymphs at top right
- scroll pattern in top left (found at Apollo temple in Delphi - shows significance to Apollo)
- Two actors play Cheiron (front and rear end)
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Death of Pentheus cup
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- 480 BC
- red figure cup
- made 75 years before the Bacchae so shows myth rather than play - but shows how playwrights utilised myths
- depicts the maenads tearing Pentheus apart, a satryr, Dionysus + a an aulos player
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Maenad Vase
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- 430 - 420 BC
- depicts a portrayal of a Dionysus ritual
- women dance around a statue of Dionysus decorated with ivy
- maenads have hair down - inappropriate. also some carry a thyrus and some play a tamborine
- shows music was important to Bacchic worship
- pre-dates the Bacchae
