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The Pronomos Vase and its Context

Cover of 'The Pronomos Vase'. The title is written in orange against a black background, above a scene from the Pronomos Vase showing the seated aulos player.
Oliver Taplin and Rosie Wyles
2010
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In this collection of essays, illustrated with nearly 60 drawings and photographs, leading specialists from a variety of disciplines tackle the critical questions posed by the Pronomos Vase, the single most important piece of pictorial evidence for ancient theatre to have survived from ancient Greece. The discussion covers a wide range of perspectives and issues, including the artist's oeuvre; the pottery market; the relation of this piece to other artistic, and especially celebratory, artefacts; the political and cultural contexts of the world that it was produced in; the identification of figures portrayed on it: and the significance of the Pronomos Vase as theatrical evidence. 

Publisher
Oxford University Press
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  1. Oliver Taplin & Rosie Wyles, ‘Introduction’ 
  1. Thomas Mannack, ‘A Description’ 
  1. Lucilla Burn, ‘The Contexts of the Production and Distribution of Athenian Painted Pottery in c.400’ 
  1. Francois Lissarrague, ‘From Flat Page to the Volume of the Pot’ 
  1. Mark Griffith ‘Satyr-Play and Tragedy, Face to Face’ 
  1. Claude Calame, ‘Aetiological Performance and Consecration in the Sanctuary of Dionysos’ 
  1. Eric Csapo, ‘The Context of Choregic Dedications’ 
  1. Klaus Junker, ‘The Transformation of Athenian Theatre Culture around 400 BC’ 
  1. Robin Osborne, ‘Who's Who on the Pronomos Vase?’ 
  1.  Edith Hall, ‘Tragic Theatre: Demetrios' Rolls and Dionysos' Other Woman’ 
  1.  Peter Wilson, ‘The Man and the Music (and the Choregos?)’ 
  1.  Bernd Seidensticker, ‘Dance in Satyr Play’ 
  1.  Rosie Wyles, ‘The Tragic Costumes’ 
  1.  Oliver Taplin, ‘A Curtain Call?’