A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 40
y picture of two actorsdressed up as birds. Before them stands a flute-player. Thoughthis vase is many years earlier in date than the Birds of Aristophanes(414 B.C.), yet it may serve to give us some idea of the appearanceof the chorus in that play. The two large vases illustrate Greek dramatic… … Fig. 17.—Marriage Scene from a Roman-.Comedy (No. 54). 2:3. and the beginning of the third century B.C. They are associatedwith the name of Ehinthon, a Syracusan poet. These plays dealtin the wildest spirit of farce with subjects drawn from Greekmythology and legend, as well as with scenes from…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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