A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 39
atic contests. The first of these scenes shows a tragicchorus with the goat, which was the prize of victory. The secondshows a comic chorus, in which a man seated at the back of a mule-car appears to be making jests at the expense of another man whofollows. This jesting from a car became a regular… … ID 6 & o KH M MO H a 03 o H CC W•0 Wn<w w o «j w K H «Eh o g o CJ QW o« o MPn w- o 28 (1IIKEK AXU HOAIAX I,IFF,. contests is distinguished by any peculiarity of costume. Anotherearly vase, however (No. 51), gives a lively picture of two actorsdressed up as birds. Before them stands a…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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