Ancient theatre and performance culture around the Black Sea

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....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Braund, David, 1957- editor (editor), Hall, Edith, 1959- editor, Wyles, Rosie, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2019.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b41989983*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Edith Hall
  • Approaches. Introduction: Embarking on a voyage around Black Sea theatre / David Braund
  • The spread of Greek theatre to the west and to the north-east / Oliver Taplin
  • The northward advance of Greek horizons / Stephanie West
  • Places. The tragedians of Heraclea and comedians of Sinope / Edith Hall
  • The Phanagoria chous : comic art in miniature in a luxury tomb in the Cimmerian Bosporus / Jeffrey Rusten
  • Theatre and performance in the Bosporan kingdom / David Braund
  • Ancient theatre in Tauric Chersonesus / Sergey Saprykin
  • Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea / Valeriya Bylkova
  • Celebrating Dionysos in Istros and Tomis: theatrical manifestations and artistic life in two Ionian cities of the Black Sea / Madalina Dana
  • Ancient theatres and theatre-art of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast and Thracian hinterland / Alexander Minchev
  • Plays. Space, place and the metallurgical imagination of the Prometheus Trilogy / Emmanuela Bakola
  • Fragmentary Greek tragedies set in the Black Sea / Rosie Wyles
  • Black Sea back story: Euripides / Edith Hall
  • Mind-games in the Crimea: Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris / Felix Budelmann
  • Visualising Euripides' Tauric temple of the Maiden Goddess / Edith Hall
  • Performative presences. Music and performance among Greeks and Scythians / Marina Vakhtina
  • A new mask and musical instruments from the eastern Bosporus / Vladimir Bochkovoy, David Braund, Roman Mimokhodov, Nikolay Sudarev
  • The cult of Dionysus in ancient Georgia / Manana Odisheli
  • Paratheatrical performances in the Bosporan Kingdom : the evidence of terracotta figurines / Maya Muratov
  • Historiography and theatre : the tragedy of Scythian king Skyles / David Braund
  • Life trajectories : Iphigenia, Helen and Achilles on the Black Sea / Froma Zeitlin
  • Epilogue: Dancing around the Black Sea: Xenophon, Pseudo-Scymnus and Lucian's Bacchants / David Braund.