Masks, costume, and prosthetics in Greek performance (8th century BCE–3rd century CE)

1. Dionysian ritual performance sets a model

   Jan 1, 700 BCELabels: Dionysian festival, chorus

   • Britannica
   • WHE

2. Tragedy takes shape with a named actor

   Jan 1, 534 BCELabels: Thespis, tragedy

   • WHE
   • Britannica

3. Early festival theatre creates visual conventions

   Jan 1, 500 BCELabels: Athenian festivals, masks

   • WHE
   • Britannica

4. Comedy competition encourages exaggerated facial types

   Jan 1, 486 BCELabels: comedy, comic masks

   • GreekTheatre
   • Aristotle

5. Second actor increases mask changes and roles

   Jan 1, 472 BCELabels: Aeschylus, second actor

   • Britannica
   • GreekTheatre

6. Third actor supports more specialized costume signaling

   Jan 1, 442 BCELabels: Sophocles, third actor

   • GreekTheatre
   • Britannica

7. Satyr-play costuming mixes animal traits and comedy

   Jan 1, 410 BCELabels: satyr play, satyr chorus

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   • Calvin HDA

8. Tragic “buskins” and padded silhouettes enlarge actors

   Jan 1, 400 BCELabels: cothurni, padded silhouette

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   • Britannica

9. Stone theatre building improves backstage changes

   Jan 1, 330 BCELabels: Theatre of, sk n

   • DionysusWiki
   • WHE Image

10. New Comedy refines everyday dress and mask “types”

    Jan 1, 300 BCELabels: New Comedy, Menander

    • Misoumenos
    • RomeArtLover

11. Hellenistic mask forms show the “onkos” headpiece

    Jan 1, 150 BCELabels: Hellenistic masks, onkos

    • BritishMuseum
    • Britannica

12. Roman-period masks spread through terracotta and art

    Jan 1, 100 BCELabels: Roman period, terracotta masks

    • WHE Mask
    • BritishMuseum

13. Pollux records mask series and costume details

    Jan 1, 160Labels: Julius Pollux, Onomasticon

    • Britannica
    • Britannica

14. Theatre of Dionysus gains a new Roman stage front

    Jan 1, 300Labels: Theatre of, Bema of

    • BemaWiki
    • DionysusWiki