T C 357: Comedy, Ancient and Modern

Aristophanes in Performance: Some Images

The Theater

• The Greek Theater at Epidauros
• The Theater of Dionysos at Athens
• The Theater of Dionysos: Artist's reconstruction

Masks, Costumes, and Music

• Timeline of Greek and Roman Masks
• Rehearsal for a Greek Satyr Play. Pompeiian mosaic panel, 62 - 79 AD.
• Scene from the satyr-play "Omphale" by Demetrios. Attic Red-figure volute krater by the Pronomos Painter, ca. 400.
• Warriors riding dolphins, possibly chorus scenes from an Old Comedy. Attic Black-figure skyphos.
• Comic actors or chorus members dressed as birds with an aulos player ("The Getty Birds"; courtesy of Gary Homer Gutchess).
• A fragment of a Greek tragedy with musical notation

Birds: The Political Background

Map of the Greek world--the Mediterranean

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