The Iconography of Dionysiac Choroi: Dithyramb, Tragedy, and the Basel Krater

Authors

  • Matthew C Wellenbach Brown University

Abstract

This painting of ca. 480 B.C., showing regimented dancers as in dithyramb but masked and in a setting as in tragedy, joins with other evidence to point to the mimetic character of dithyramb.

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2014-10-14

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