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This book answers the question 'How did Athenian drama shape ideas about civic identity?' through the medium of three case studies focusing on props. Traditional responses to the question have overlooked the significance of props which were symbolically implicated in Athenian ideology, yet the key objects explored in this study (voting urns and pebbles, swords, and masks) each carried profound connections to Athenian civic identity while also playing important roles as props on the fifth-century stage. Playwrights exploited the powerful dynamic generated from the intersection between the 'social lives' (off-stage existence in society) and 'stage lives' (handling in theatre) of these objects to enhance the dramatic effect of their plays as well as the impact of these performances on society. The exploration of the 'stage lives' of these objects across comedy, tragedy, and satyr drama reveals much about generic interdependence and distinction. Meanwhile the consideration of iconography representing the objects' lives outside the theatre sheds light on drama's powerful interplay with art. Essential reading for scholars and students of ancient Greek history, culture, and drama, the innovative approach and insightful analysis contained in this volume will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of Theatre Studies, Art History, and Cultural Studies.
Theatrical science --- drama [literature] --- props [object genres] --- Antiquity --- Athens --- Theater --- Stage props --- Literature and society --- Greek drama --- Ancient Greece --- Properties, Stage --- Props, Stage --- Set props --- Stage properties --- Motion pictures --- Television --- Theaters --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History --- History and criticism --- Setting and scenery --- Stage-setting and scenery --- Social aspects --- Athens (Greece) --- Civilization. --- E-books --- drama [discipline]
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This book studies the most important form of theatre in the entire Roman empire—pantomime, the ancient equivalent of ballet dancing. Performed for more than five centuries in hundreds of theatres from Portugal in the West to the Euphrates, Gaul to North Africa, solo male dancing stars—the ancient forerunners of Nijinsky, Nureyev and Baryshnikov—stunned their intercultural and cross‐class audiences with their erotic costumes, gestural delicacy, and dazzling athleticism. In sixteen specially commissioned and complementary studies, the leading world specialists explore the all aspects of the ancient pantomime dancer's performance skills, popularity, and social impact, while paying special attention to the texts that formed the basis of this distinctive art form. The book argues that the core elements that underlay pantomime performances were the presence of a solo male dancer, masked, who used his body rather than speech in an evocation of a mythical story, accompanied by music; however, the venues in which pantomime performances took place, their scale, tone, and selection of additional personnel, could vary enormously. The book pays particular attention to the texts or ‘libretti’ of pantomime, which were sung by accompanying choirs, to the impact of pantomime on ancient aesthetics and rhetoric, and the importance of the medium at the time when modern ballet was invented in the Early Modern period. An appendix of key sources in translation, from Xenophon to Macrobius, assists the reader to identify the most important evidential documents, and includes a translation of A Syriac text on pantomime by Jacob of Sarugh.
Pantomime --- Theater --- Théâtre --- History --- Histoire --- Théâtre --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Dumb shows --- Drama --- Musical theater --- Ballet --- Mime --- Pantomime - Greece - History - To 500. --- Pantomime - Rome - History - To 500. --- Grèce --- Rome --- Antiquité
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Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles from patriarchal social systems and educational institutions - from learning Latin and Greek as a marginalized minority, to being excluded from institutional support, denigrated for being lightweight or over-ambitious, and working in the shadows of husbands, fathers, and brothers - they nevertheless continued to teach, edit, translate, analyse, and elucidate the texts left to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this volume twenty essays by international leaders in the field chronicle the lives of women from around the globe who have shaped the discipline over more than five hundred years. Arranged in broadly chronological order from the Italian, Iberian, and Portuguese Renaissance through to the Stalinist Soviet Union and occupied France, they synthesize illuminating overviews of the evolution of classical scholarship with incisive case-studies into often overlooked key figures: some, like Madame Anne Dacier, were already famous in their home countries but have been neglected in previous, male-centred accounts, while others have been almost completely lost to the mainstream cultural memory. This book identifies and celebrates them - their frustrations, achievements, and lasting records; in so doing it provides the classical scholars of today, regardless of gender, with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had.
Classical philology --- Women classicists --- Classicists --- History --- Classical philology - History --- Women classicists - History --- Classicists - History --- Classical scholars --- Classics scholars --- Hellenists --- Latinists --- Philologists --- Scholars --- Women scholars
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Vase-painting, Greek. --- Vases, Red-figured --- Theater in art. --- Peinture de vases grecque --- Vases à figures rouges --- Théâtre dans l'art --- Vase-painting, Greek --- Theater in art --- Vases à figures rouges --- Théâtre dans l'art
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This is the first study of ancient theatre and performance around the coasts of the Black Sea. It brings together key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars on theatre and the Black Sea, from a wide range of disciplines, especially archaeology, drama and history. In that way the wealth of material found around these great coasts is brought together with the best methodology in all fields of study. This landmark book broadens the whole concept and range of theatre outside Athens. It shows ways in which the colonial world of the Black Sea may be compared importantly with Southern Italy and Sicily in terms of theatre and performance. At the same time, it shows too how the Black Sea world itself can be better understood through a focus on the development of theatre and performance there, both among Greeks and among their local neighbours.
Theater --- Greek drama --- Antiquities. --- Civilization. --- Greek drama. --- Intellectual life. --- Literature. --- Theater. --- History --- History and criticism --- Themes, motives --- To 1500 --- Black Sea Coast --- Greece --- Asia --- Greece. --- Intellectual life --- In literature --- Civilization --- Antiquities --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Greek literature --- E-books --- Themes, motives. --- Darstellende Kunst. --- Drama. --- Griechisch. --- Théâtre grec --- Théâtre --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Histoire --- To 1500. --- Grèce --- Noire, Côte de la mer --- Schwarzmeer-Gebiet. --- Civilisation --- Dans la littérature --- Vie intellectuelle
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Theatrical science --- Thematology --- Greece
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