Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Peristyle, Pythia, Modern Greek Enlightenment
13 Feb 2017
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Slide: comedy the papyrus of menander"s dyskolos: this is dialogue; there are no spaces between words or names of speakers. A great majority of them have been found in southern italy. After the classical period, drama became a cultural export and it was performed in many places of the greek world: this vase shows human figures dressed as birds (from aristophanes" birds). We know this is comedy because of the grotesque faces of the men. This vase represents the komos (drunken ritualistic process) and he goes to a window with a woman on the other side. The stage is visible and an old slave tries to push an old man up a ramp: this might not be a theater but it might be some type of popular street entertainment. Slide: vase showing a couple of comic cooks with grotesque faces.
