- A
phlyax play (Ancient Gr****: φλύαξ, pl: φλύακες, phlyakes), also
known as a
hilarotragedy (Ἱλαροτραγῳδία lit. 'cheerful tragedy'), was a
burlesque dramatic...
- A
depiction of
actors playing the
roles of a
master (right) and his
slave (left) in a Gr****
phlyax play, c. 350/340 BCE...
- and
Sicily Italiot Gr****:
modern dialects Magna Graecia Milo of
Croton Phlyax play
Siceliotes Sicels A
history of
earliest Italy By M****imo Pallottino...
- are the
theatre scenes.
Especially farce scenes, e.g. from the so-called
phlyax vases are
quite common.
Scenes of
athletic activity or
everyday life only...
-
Phlyax scene from
Thesmophoriazusae on an
Apulian krater, c. 370 BC.
Having been exposed,
Mnesilochus grabs a baby as a hostage, but
finds out it was a...
- A
master (right) and his
slave (left) in a
phlyax play,
Silician red-figured calyx-krater, c. 350 BC–340 BC.
Louvre Museum, Paris....
-
figures from
classical times. One of the
earliest appears in the
comic Phlyax plays developed in the Gr****
colonies in
Italy during the 4th
century BCE...
-
Phlyax scene with two
actors on a
Sicilian red-figure calyx-krater c. 350–340 BC....
- in fragments:
Epicharmus comic poet and
writers of
South Italian Comedy (
phlyax play),
Mithaecus food
writer and Archimedes.
Aeolic is an
exclusively poetic...
-
stood have been
interpreted as the
remnants of a
small mobile stage for
Phlyax plays. A
statue of a
caryatid now
preserved in the
Museo archeologico regionale...
