Perseus Dance Vase - prescribed source
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- Created on: 03-05-21 13:41
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- Perseus Dance Vase 420BC
- What is shown on this vase?
- two audience members watching a play - possibly the judges
- a comic actor dancing on stage
- Perseus
- Perseus is holding a sickle and a bag which would have Medusa's head in
- Costume/ Masks/ Props
- actor wearing a nude suit
- full mask with facial hair
- comic props - a bag and a scythe
- bag is comical becuase it is supposed to have Medusa's head inside - this is a flimsy bag therefore could easily e used for comedic purposes
- Limitations
- no orchestra or chorus shown
- we don't actually know what play this is showing
- who are the audience members - judges, stratagoi, priests, playwrite?
- tiers of wooden seating not shown
- thing on the right is hard to interpret/ identify
- Pot is largely damaged so finer details have been lost
- Red Figure, Attic vase, 420BC
- Only vase found in Attica depicting audience and stage
- How is this vase useful?
- unique - shows steps, stage, audience
- evidence of nude suits and props
- front row chairs in a theatre
- play being performed on stage
- wooden stage
- What is shown on this vase?
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