Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase Paintings

by John H. Huddilston

[68]. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 35. 71.

[69]. Cf. Overbeck, Schriftquellen, 1735–1739, and p. [112] f. below.

[70]. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 35, 132, and Helbig, Wandgemälde, 1183–1203.

[71]. Pliny, op. cit. 35, 136, and Helbig, op. cit. nos. 1189, 1262–1264. The latter is from Herculaneum. Cf. Overbeck, Schriftquellen, 2126–2135, for various epigrams touching this painting of Timomachus.

[72]. Overbeck, op. cit. 1642. Cf. Reisch, Griechische Weihgeschenke, p. 127.

[73]. Pliny, op. cit. 35, 144; cf. a Pompeian wall painting, pub. Arch. Ztg. 1883, pl. 9. 1.

[74]. Paus. 1. 20. 3.

[75]. Vid. Dörpfeld and Reisch, Das griechische Theater, p. 21.

[76]. Cf. p. [74] below.

[77]. Cf. Helbig, op. cit. Three groups are distinguishable. (1) Nos. 1216–1240, Ariadne forsaken by Theseus. (2) 1222–1232, she mourns in her solitude. (3) 1233–1240, Dionysos comes to her rescue.