Unit:
Specialty Greek and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology: From the Bronze Age Palaces to the Hellenistic KingdomsLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Supervisors info:
Eurydice Kefalidou, Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Original Title:
The iconography of Greek Drama (Tragedy, Comedy and Satyr Play) in Attic Pottery from the Era of the Peloponnesian War onwards (430 BC - late 4th century)
Translated title:
The iconography of Greek Drama (Tragedy, Comedy and Satyr Play) in Attic Pottery from the Era of the Peloponnesian War onwards (430 BC - late 4th century)
Summary:
The purpose of this thesis “The Iconography of Greek Drama (Tragedy – Comedy and Satyr Play) in Attic Pottery from the era of the Peloponnesian War onwards (430 – late 4th century BC)” is to examine the three genres of theatre depicting on vases in a specific period.
The particular thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them dealing with a different genre of the theatre and its representations of the surviving vases.
Overall, the aim of this thesis is to present and to comment critically these specific vases with scenes derived from the three genres of the theatre (Tragedy – Comedy and Satyr Play)
Main subject category:
Archaeology
Keywords:
theatre, 4th century, surviving vases, representation
Number of references:
132
