Pots

490-500

Basel Dancers Vase date

330

Oedipus the King Vase date

400

Medea Vase date

400-380

Choregos Vase date

380-370

Women at the Thesmophoria Vase date

380-370

Cheiron Vase date

Late fifth century

Maenad Stamnos Vase date

420

Perseus Dance Vase date

480

Pentheus Vase date

450

Phiale Vase date

410

Pronomos Vase date

480

Birds Vase date

Argued that tragedy masks are neutral so that the audience can project their own emotions onto the

Oliver Taplin - tragedy masks

The Basel Dancers Vase shows dithyramb dancers in honour of Dionysus

Margot Schmidt - Basel Dancers Vase

’the Not-Oedipus vase’

Edith Hall - Oedipus the King Vase

Disagrees with Edith Hall’s claim that the vase show two boys, and says the characters are assumed based on the scene rather than the gender

Oliver Taplin - Oedipus the King Vase

Claims that it is a rehearsal, as the actor has no mask or costume

Oliver Taplin - Perseus Dance Vase

The scene is part of the Anthesteria (a festival of wine) where hey are paraded on boats, as seen with the curve

Hamilton - Perseus Dance Vase

Claims it is a murder trial of the Phreatto style, where the boat prevents his polluted feet from stepping on Atticus

Schmidt - Perseus Dance Vase

Claims it is a parody of Sophocles’ lost ‘Andromeda’, as the curve is the newly refurbished seating of the Theatre at Thorikos

Hughes - Perseus Dance Vase

‘For the worshipper of Dionysus, the worlds of the myth and the polis are one’

Sarah Pierce - useful quotation for the Pronomos Vase