'Women of Thesmophoria' vase - prescribed source
- Created by: tash_c1ark
- Created on: 03-05-21 10:43
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- 'Women of Thesmophoria' 411BC
- What is shown on the pot?
- An Aristophanes play being performed
- 2 actors
- 1 male and 1 female
- 2 actors
- Euripides' cousin holding a 'baby' hostage and sat on an altar
- Looks as though the cousin is going to sacrifice the 'baby'
- An Aristophanes play being performed
- Costumes/ Masks/ Props
- grotesque comic masks
- male actor dressed as a women wearing a skin
- holding a wine vase to catch the wine
- cousin holding a baby which is actually a wine skin
- cousin wearing a head band which a detail from the play
- Man is sat on an altar
- holding a knife as though for sacrifice
- phallus
- Red figure, Southern Italy, Bell Krater, 411BC
- How is it useful?
- Shows populaity of Greek comedy in Magna Graecia
- Greek Comedy spread
- Evidence for a play being performed - details match the text
- shows how Greek Drama was 'exported' across the Mediterranean- universal
- recognisable scene from a certain play - 'Women of Thesmophoria
- easy to interpret
- large props that have a purpose to the story
- Shows populaity of Greek comedy in Magna Graecia
- What is shown on the pot?
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