ISBN 978-0-89236-999-7

slaves and poets

analyses of natural dyestuffs

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Vassilis Lambrinoudakis

Pots and Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C. CAA24 ISBN 978-0-89236-999-7Oliver Taplin This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase paintings of fourth century BCE Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen the myths enacted in the popular new medium of tragedy. The pots do not, it is argued, show the plays as such, but gain depth and complexity from recalling the tragic vision of particular