Pots & Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C.

by Oliver Taplin

Overview

This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. 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. Of some 300 relevant vases, 109 are reproduced and accompanied by a picture-by-picture discussion. This book supplies a rich and unprecedented resource from a neglected treasury of painting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892368075
Publisher:	Getty Publications
Publication date:	10/15/2007
Series:	Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Oliver Taplin is Professor of Classics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is a specialist on the interpretation of Greek drama through performance in both ancient and modern times. His books include Greek Tragedy in Action, Homeric Soundings and Comic Angels, a ground-breaking study of Greek comedy and vase-painting.

Editorial Reviews

In this beautifully illustrated and accessible work on vase paintings from South Italy, Taplin has made an important contribution to the hotly disputed point at which classics and art history intersect.”—Religious Studies Review

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