Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase Paintings

by John H. Huddilston

[137]. No. 3256. Pub. Overbeck, Bildwerke, pl. 29. 4; general view of the whole vase, Gerhard’s Apulische Vasen. pl. A. 6. Another painting, a late work and wretchedly done, somewhat similar, is published in Arch. Ztg. 1877, pl. 4. 11.

[138]. Fig. 8. Pub. Overbeck, Bildwerke, pl. 29. 7; Mon. d. Inst. iv. pl. 48; Arch. Ztg. 1860, pl. 138. 2; Baumeister’s Denkmäler, ii. p. 1117; Rayet et Collignon, Histoire de la céramique grecque, p. 297.

[139]. Vid. Overbeck, Bildwerke, pl. 29. 11, and 12.

[140]. Cf. vs. 67, 84, 91.

[141]. This view is maintained by Dörpfeld and Reisch, Das griechische Theater, p. 243 ff. In reply to this vid. Robert in Hermes, vol. 32, p. 439 ff. Vid. also Bethe, Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Theaters im Altertum, pp. 112–116, where this point in the production of the Eumenides is ably discussed.

[142]. Cf. this scene on the Sarcophagi reliefs. Robert, Die antiken Sarkophag-Reliefs, ii. pl. 54–56, nos. 155–161, the right end scene; also no. 157¹, p. 173.

[143]. Cf. the ghosts of Aigisthos and Klytaimestra on the end reliefs of the Sarcophagus, no. 155, op. cit.

[144]. Orest. 408, 1650; Tro. 457; cf. also the relief found near Argos, pub. Athen. Mitth. 1879, pl. 9 = Roscher’s Lexikon, i. p. 1330.

[145]. Wilamowitz, Aischylos Orestie, Zweites Stück, 1896, p. 246 ff., has shown the plausibility of believing in such an epic. The author was a Delphian.

[146]. A few fragments remain from the Oresteia of Stesichoros. Cf. Bergk-Schaefer, Poetae lyrici graeci, iii. p. 219 ff.