Note 117 — Chapter II · THE INFLUENCE OF GREEK TRAGEDY ON VASE PAINTING.
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The large class of Lower Italy vases that illustrate scenes from comedy are priceless treasures. They are based on the ‘farce-plays,’ φλύακες τραγικοί—the invention of Rhinthon (vid. Rhinthonis Fragmenta, Halle, dissertation by E. Völker, 1887); cf. especially Heydemann, Jahrbuch, 1886, p. 260 ff., where all the examples then known are discussed. Bethe, Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Theaters im Altertum, p. 278–292, handles particularly the interesting question of the stage represented in the scenes.
Mention should be made also of Körte’s excellent article in the Jahrbuch for 1893, p. 61–93, on Archaeologische Studien zur alten Komödie.