POTS Flashcards
(3 cards)
Oedipus
- fragments Sicily
-320 BC
-ornate columns, holing up skene, with tiled roof, no detail on door
-Oedipus: pensive, chilton , hamation
-messanger traveling tunic, clock, long boots
-mask for M and J
-messenger from Corinth, speaking
-Jocasta hand in shock - Antigone and Ismene but not depicted on a scene from sophocles OT, but add poignancy of the moment of Jocastas anagnorisis and peripeteia
-already 3 speaking actors present
-messenger child from Lauius
Sicily-> good evidence to show the popularity of Attic drama in the west
Telephus Vase
-380-370 southern italy krater
-Aristophanes produced his women at the Thesmophoria in 411 BC. details how has been reproduced in southern Italy
- play subverts one of Euripides plot, telephus, sizes orestes as hostage and thesmo, Euripides relative disguises himself as a women in order to infiltrate the fame festival and find what they think of Euripides, siezes one of the babies as hostage to protect himslef when his disguise is discovered , only to discover that the baby is a wineskin proving all women do is get drunk
-relative disguised as women (phallus showing), with women wreth dress and girdle, and saggy tights
mother rushes up to try and save the baby but its a krater because she wants to save the wine
- alter, masks, grotesque features. Tightsto disguise gender, props on stage, evidence of how arisophanes portrays women- obsessed with wine and sex
Cheiron Vase
- southern Italy Krater
- Cratinus did produce a play called Cheirones and as characters are named this could relate to the play
-380-370
-costumes: comedy
-xanthias at the top with short tunic , phallus , padded tummy exposed backside
-projecting roof - old-hair ,eyebrows stick. blind , myth of apollo
-Cheiron, presented as a pantomine donkey with one man at the front and a second representing the hind legs- could be breaking the 4th wall - two elegant ladies, long chitons and decorated himaltia(names as nymphs)
- he is a slave and we can see his bundle of stuff, on the stage behind him.
- behind Cheiron is a garlanded youth- probs , Achilles , Cheirons pupil
- Stage can be seen clearly from the side, possible doorway with a projecting porch, could represent the temple at delphi where Cheiron was healed by Apollo
-both male and female, stage building, masks , slave, old man and women - western greeks valued Athenian plays whether past or present
