Perseus Dance Vase

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  • Perseus Dance Vase
    • Object
      • red figure chous
      • from Attica
      • 420 BC
      • artist unknown
      • (currently) Vlastos Collection, Athens
    • Depiction
      • comic actor on stage
        • Perseus
        • carries a sickle
        • head of Medusa in bag
        • costume phallus
        • 'stage naked'
        • either flying or dancing
      • 2 people sat off stage
        • audience members
        • priest of Dionysus and another priest
        • Dionysus and his consort Ariadne
        • Choregos and playwright
        • sat upon a klismoi
      • skene
    • Significance
      • represents the skene
      • depiction of the audience
      • artistic license
        • missing chorus

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