A flourishing and consistent theatrical tradition in comedy during the fourth century BC throughout Magna Graecia is nowadays attested by the copious South Italian red-figure vase-painting there produced between 400 and 300 BC, discovered in great quantities over the last two centuries (mostly in excavated tombs). This paper concentrates on the so-called ‘phlyax vases’, that is, on the pottery conventionally thought to depict an informal and improvised local farce, the Italic ‘phlyax play’, (recently interpreted, instead, by Oliver Taplin as reflecting the Athenian Old Comedy performed in the western Greek colonies, see his famous Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Painting, Oxford 1993), focusing on the conspicuous presence in such depictions of musical instruments on stage.
Music on Stage in Red-Figure Vase-Painting of Magna Graecia (400-320 BC). The Role of Music on So-Called Phlyax Vases
ROCCONI, ELEONORA
2012-01-01
Abstract
A flourishing and consistent theatrical tradition in comedy during the fourth century BC throughout Magna Graecia is nowadays attested by the copious South Italian red-figure vase-painting there produced between 400 and 300 BC, discovered in great quantities over the last two centuries (mostly in excavated tombs). This paper concentrates on the so-called ‘phlyax vases’, that is, on the pottery conventionally thought to depict an informal and improvised local farce, the Italic ‘phlyax play’, (recently interpreted, instead, by Oliver Taplin as reflecting the Athenian Old Comedy performed in the western Greek colonies, see his famous Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Painting, Oxford 1993), focusing on the conspicuous presence in such depictions of musical instruments on stage.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
