Pots & Plays

Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C.

By: Oliver Taplin

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Hardcover | 1 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Although Greek tragedy usually generates greater popularity and interest than comedy, past studies of the depiction on ceramic vases of theater scenes have mostly concentrated on comedies. A significant proportion of the vases with depictions of tragedy has been first published only in the last twenty-five years. There has been no sustained attempt to discuss these exciting additions in relation to tragedy, nor to reconsider the cultural context in the light of these discoveries.
Oliver Taplin here sets out to examine the previously understudied tragic scenes. Through detailed scrutiny of some 109 vases and vase fragments with depictions of Greek tragedies, he is able to identify plays and scenes by the great playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Some scenes can with great certainty be identified with surviving tragedies, while the author more tentatively suggests that others may depict scenes from tragedies that are now lost or survive only as fragments.

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"In this beautifully illustrated and accessible work on vase paintings from South Italy, Taplin has made an important contribution to the hotly disputed point at which classics and art history intersect."--Religious Studies Review

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Setting the Scenes	p. 1
The Pots	p. 47
Vases that may be related to Aeschylus	p. 48
Vases that may be related to Sophocles	p. 88
Vases that may be related to surviving plays by Euripides	p. 108
Vases that might be related to fragmentary plays by Euripides	p. 166
Vases that may be related to otherwise unknown tragedies	p. 220
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Pots & Plays

Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C.

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