Choregos Vase
- Created by: PsychoMunchkin
- Created on: 09-04-22 15:15
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- Krater "Choregos Vase" or "Comic Angels
- Object
- red figure krater
- Southern Italian
- c. 400-380BC
- Choregos Painter
- (currently) J. Paul Getty Museum, California
- Depiction
- scene from comedy
- both comic and tragic actor
- four figures low stage
- two choregos
- one is much older than another (grey hair and beard)
- Aegisthus
- Pyrrhias
- two choregos
- Aegisthus dressed tragically
- ornate and stylised clothing, laced korthornoi and serious expression
- has also entered from a doorway
- Pyrrhias stood on a basket
- scene from comedy
- Significance
- potentially depicts a comic competition between Aegisthus and Pyrrhias
- Aegisthus represents tragedy
- Pyrrhias represents comedy
- allows direct comparison between the costumes of comedy and tragedy
- use of a skene
- potentially depicts a comic competition between Aegisthus and Pyrrhias
- Object
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