Phlyacs
Phlyaks (old Greek Φλύακες) is, according to the Hellenistic historian Sosibios Lakon, the name used in the Greco-Lower Italian region for the actors of the local variety of the Doric folk bosom.
In ancient times the name is often derived from φλυαρεῖν ( phlyareín , talking nonsense ). However, modern research takes a derivation of φλέω ( phleo , bursting ) to. Phleon and similar forms is an old epithet of the god Dionysus , who is closely related to such theatrical performances. In modern research, since the 19th century, phlyak pieces have been associated with the representations of comical scenes on Lower Italian vases ( phlyak vases ). Some conclusions can be drawn from this. Men with ugly theater masks , thickly padded under their shaggy robes, strapped with a large phallic dummy , played in such plays. The pieces played in the mythological realm, so the love affairs of some gods like Zeus or Hermes were mocked or scenes from normal life were depicted, such as love affairs of people, weddings or the punishment of thieves. According to recent research, it is assumed that the listed pieces are at least in part Attic works. With Rhinthon , however, there was also a literary Lower Italian representative of comic drama in the last decades of the fourth century BC.
literature
- Heinz-Günther Nesselrath : Phlyaks . In Der Neue Pauly 9 (2000), Sp. 908f.
supporting documents
- ↑ FGrH 595 F 7
- ↑ Hesychios of Alexandria ; Iulius Pollux 9.149