Comic Angels

by Taplin Oliver and Oliver Taplin

Book Overview

This book opens a neglected chapter in the reception of Athenian drama, especially comedy, and gives center stage to a particularly attractive and entertaining series of vase-paintings which have generally been regarded as marginal curiosities. These are the so-called "phylax vases," nearly all painted in Greek cities of South Italy in the period 400 to 360 B.C. Until now, they have been taken to reflect a sort of local folk-theater, but Taplin argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019814797X
• ISBN13: 9780198147978
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"