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The Pronomos Vase and its Context, Hardback Book

The Pronomos Vase and its Context Hardback

Edited by Oliver (Emeritus Professor of Classics, Magdalen College, Oxford) Taplin, Rosie (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Nottingham) Wyles

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The Pronomos Vase is the single most important piece of pictorial evidence for ancient theatre to have survived from ancient Greece.

It depicts an entire theatrical chorus and cast along with the celebrated musician Pronomos, in the presence of their patron god, Dionysos.

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 this complex hub of evidence.

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.

The volume offers not only the most recent scholarship on the vase but also some ground-breaking interpretations of it.

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