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Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings SEL023000 as elsewhereThis book opens up a neglected chapter in the reception of Athenian drama, especially comedy; and it gives stage centre to a particularly attractive and entertaining series of vase paintings, which have been generally regarded as marginal curiosities. These are the so called `phlyax vases', nearly all painted in the Greek cities of South Italy in the period 400 t0 360 BC. Up till now, they have been taken to reflect some kind of local folk theatre,