A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life

part in these contests is distinguished by any peculiarity of costume.

Another early vase, however (No. =51=), gives a lively picture of two actors dressed up as birds. Before them stands a flute-player. Though this vase is many years earlier in date than the _Birds_ of Aristophanes (414 B.C.), yet it may serve to give us some idea of the appearance of the chorus in that play.