Welcome to Aristophanes’ THESMOPHORIZOUSAI
[Greek 4043, Spring, 2009 University of Arkansas]
Illustration:
South Italian Apulian red-figure bell-krater, c. 380-370 BCE, by the Schiller
Painter. Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg.
Scene from Thesmophoriazousai. The
Kinsman as paratragic Telephos (see below for a classical example of Telephos
and Orestes).
Note details from the play: Both characters
are masked. Mica holds the ‘slaughter bowl’ (to sphageion 754) to
catch the ‘blood, and the ‘baby’ is wearing ‘Persian booties’ (Persikas
734).
Illustration: Telephos with Orestes his hostage. Attic red-figure
pelike, c. 450 BCE, by a painter near the Chicago painter. British Museum,
London.
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