25. 3. 2019
Oliver Taplin: Comic vase-paintings
In tombs in the northern part of Apulia, a large and entertaining body of theatrical vase-paintings from the first half of the fourth century BC have been found, commonly (but wrongly) known as “phlyax vases”. The lecture will ask how and how far the Italians for whom Greek was not their first language would have been able to appreciate these pervasively theatrical scenes of Greek comedy.
5 April, 2019, room G01, 12.00‒13.30
