Title
Matchmaker from Greek comedy on a mosaic (2nd century B.C.)
Creator
Anonymous
Date
2nd century B.C.
Description
Scene from the comedy Synaristoi by Aristophanes or another comedy from the New Comedy in which there is a matchmaker, probably Philatinies and a hetaera and other characters. Banquet scene.
See more extant variants of this scene in
http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/06/women-eating-lunch-together.html
Archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20190129220106/http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/06/women-eating-lunch-together.html
See more extant variants of this scene in
http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/06/women-eating-lunch-together.html
Archived at
https://web.archive.org/web/20190129220106/http://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2017/06/women-eating-lunch-together.html
Source
Dioscorides' Villa in Samos, currently in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.
Format
Mosaic
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