Perseus Dance Vase

• The date of the Perseus Dance Vase is c. 420 BC
• The Perseus Dance Vase was found in Athens
• The Perseus Dance Vase shows

  • Raised stage
  • Comic actor dancing
  • Props
• The two audience members could be

  • Dionysus & Ariadne
  • Theatre Judges
  • Choregos & Playwright
  • Priest of Dionysus
• Perseus on the Perseus Dancing Vase's costume shows

  • Naked body costume
  • tied on phallus
• The Perseus Dancing Vase is useful because it shows

  • The audience
  • A raised stage
  • Props
  • Costume
  • Movement
• The limitations of the Perseus Dancing Vase are

  • Damaged Vase
  • Lacking detail
  • no orchestra
  • the audience members are unknown
• Name the figures

  A) Perseus

  B) Playwrite or Ariadne

  C) Choregos or Dionysus