A terracotta Greek-Tanagra Style female goddess head crowned with ornate diadem. With custom made methacrylate support. Dimensions: 8,00 cm. / 13,50 cm with support A phlyax play, also known as a hilarotragedy was a burlesque dramatic form that developed in the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in the 4th century BC. From the surviving fragments and titles of the plays, they appear to have been a form of mythological burlesque, which mixed figures from the Greek pantheon with the stock characters and situations of Attic Comedy.