The undergraduate thesis focuses on depictions (especially on vase paintings) in Greek visual arts, which can be connected to the ancient Greek theatre. In the first part, the main ancient sources for our knowledge of the Greek theater are presented; in the following part, the theater building and props, costumes and masks are discussed in shorter subsections. In the second part, the thesis focuses on tragedy and comedy in southern Italy and Sicily, as well as the vase depictions that were created in that environment. In the case of tragedy, the emphasis is on the question of mutual (in)dependence of theatrical performances and paintings and on motifs, which can nevertheless give us an idea that the depiction is not only revealing a myth, but a dramatic scene. The comedy part on the other hand focuses on the literary forms that flourished in this environment, and the problem of the (alleged) connection of one of these, the phylax play, with depictions on vases. The last part of the thesis focuses on the Pronomos vase, the emphasis being on the question of its creation, the iconographic interpretation of the whole and on individual particularly interesting motifs.
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