Maschere teatrali dalla necropoli ellenistica della contrada Diana di Lipari? Criticità metodologiche e ipotesi di lavoro
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The first part summarises the historical context of the discovery of miniature theatrical masks in the necropolis of Diana on Lipari between 1950 and 2000, their classification and the organisation of the museum by the archaeologists Luigi Bernabò Brea and Madeleine Cavalier. All this took place in parallel with the first editions of Menander’s recently discovered papyrus texts, for which the Onomasticon of Pollux IV.133-154 was immediately established as a guide to their classification, offering a method. The interpretations of the miniatures as ‘theatrocentric’ and ‘dionysocentric’ have been partly refuted by Agnes Schwarzmaier’s monograph and much of the subsequent bibliography, which insists rather on their symbolic value in funerary rituals. In the second part, the question of the method of recognising the value of small theatrical masks is reopened. If, on the one hand, we accept as undeniable the connection of these finds with the theatrical life of the 4th-3rd centuries B.C. in relation to the numerous Apulian, Lucanian, Sicilian and Paestan vase paintings that reveal the wealth of theatrical imagery of the same period even in funeral contexts, on the other hand, we intend to re-examine the method of classification by means of a case study represented by five masks of elderly men attributed to the type of ‘Pappos Protos’ of the New Comedy by Bernabò Brea. The conclusion reached is that these miniatures represent an expressive mask type of the tragic genre, which is also attested elsewhere in Greece.
keywordsMiniatures of theatre masks, Necropolis of Lipari, Onomasticon of Pollux, Masks of Menander, Tragic Masks, Luigi Bernabò Brea’s excavation campaigns.Biografia dell'autoreUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – elisabetta.matelli@unicatt.it |
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