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Mixed Messages in Greek Theatre: an Examination of Vases and Written Histories
No one fully understands the nature of ancient Greek theatre. The barriers that
stand between the scholars of the Twentieth Century and the truth of the
theatrical practices of 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Athens are: 2,500 ....
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.... exist which are, as Green explains it, "inescapably"
linked to the theatre. A sample of these well-understood vases is examined
below.
Historians often agree on the subject matter of certain Greek vases because of
one or more distinguishing qualities like the presence of masks, staging,
inscriptions of the names of characters, and elaborate costuming. A neck-amphora
by the Ixion Painter (c.350 B.C., Kiel, private collection) "represents an actor
with the satyr mask he has been wearing drawn up on top of his head" (Trendall
1989, p. 161). ....
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