Choregos Vase - Prescribe source
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- Created on: 03-05-21 11:43
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- Choregos Vase 400BC
- Red figure, Southern Italy, Bell Krater, 400BC
- Choregos funded plays
- What is shown on the pot?
- 2 actors
- 1 Comic - Phyrrhias
- 1 Tragic - Aegisthus
- chorus possibly representing choregoi
- comic costume
- Comic play being performed on a stage
- gestures - confused and angry?
- 2 actors
- Costume/ Masks/ Props
- Tragic costume
- dressed as a soldier or guard - wearing a helmet andspear
- Comedy Costume
- short, padded grotesque masks, phallus
- upturned basket being used to stand on
- all wearing kothornoi
- Tragic costume
- How useful is this vase?
- shows a play being performed on a stage with steps and the door to the skene
- Direct comparison between comic and tragic costumes
- the tragic actor has emerged from the skene - shows use for the door
- we know who all the figures are because they are named
- Limitations
- Chorus shouldn't be on stage artistic licence?
- uncertain what is actually happening in this scene
- one: competition between Aegisthus and Pyrrhus, representing comedy and tragedy
- was the chorus split in half - divided into older supporters of tragedy and younger people in support of comedy
- Red figure, Southern Italy, Bell Krater, 400BC
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