PERSEUS

Question 1

4️⃣ 🔑 points for Perseus Pot staging?

Answer 1

1) Costume
2) Props
3) Staging
4) Audience

Question 2

🌊WHO is the character on the R? and describe his costume

Answer 2

Perseus
COSTUME
1) Misshapen body suit with lines ➖ to show where it ends at wrists + ankles 😂
2) Comedic phallus 😂
3) Grotesque COMIC mask

LINK?
1) Common in comedies- in other 🏺
2) Common in comedies- in other 🏺

Question 3

🌊WHEN was the Perseus pot made?

Answer 3

420-410 BC

Question 4

WHAT props does Perseus have ➕ relevancy? 🐍👩🏽 🥾🪽

Answer 4

1) A sickle knife
2) A pouch
but
3) ❌ Shoes of Hermes

MAY BE…
1) One used to cut of Medusas head
2) MAY contain Medusas head though ❌ explicitly shown
3) May have been there originally but damage…

Question 5

WHAT does the staging of the play include ➕ show? 🪜🎼

Answer 5

1) Raised wooden stage w/t steps where actors = perform 🪜
but
2) ❌ orkestra (chorus…)

SO…
1) One of ONLY pictorial ev for 5th cent Athenian raised stage

2) Might make it a not accurate depiction of Ancient Greek Theatre

V

Artistic License = highlight the 3 figures ❌ chorus

Question 6

🌊WHAT do scholars say the audience might represent and why?

Answer 6

AUDIENCE
Two spectators, One old 👴🏻 one young 🧒🏼

1) Represent generalisation of au 🟰 young boy/old man

OR

2) Rep judges/priests OR Dionysus & consort Ariadne
- ✅ Reason for (🪵) klismoi
- Used at Theatre of Dionysus for prohedria (VIP)
- 👁️ Elitist arrangement of Theatre ➕ importance of religion

OR

3) Rep Choregos + playwright
- Importance ‼️

Question 7

WHAT might the audience being doing asa typical comic audience? 😂>☹️

Answer 7

Judging play —> Au = +++ integrated in jokes + festival than in tragedy

Question 8

🌊 Limitations? 🖊️🫥

Answer 8

1) Finer details had to be remodelled…
2) Huge chunk of jug = missing 🫥
3) Drawing of fragment ✍️

SO…
1) ❌ authentic
2) Never know what was there/importance
3) ⬇️ Accurate

Question 9

🌊HOW is it useful in general? 👥

Answer 9

1) Depicts layout of theatre (stage + klismoi) = uncommon in vases

2) ONLY POT = ✅👁️ evidence of audience

Question 10

🌊HOW is this pot useful/useless in depicting movement on the stage?
🥾🪽🧍

Answer 10

Perseus = flying (or dancing)
Like in the myth when given shoes of Hermes to reach Medusa

1) ✅ Info for gestures in Comic plays (exaggerated raised leg + arm etc)

but

2) Since pot = static + ❌ others on stage 🟰 difficult to 💯 Know