Ancient theatre and performance culture around the Black Sea / edited by David Braund, Edith Hall, Rosie Wyles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braund, David, 1957- editor.

Hall, Edith, 1959- editor.

Wyles, Rosie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Black Sea Coast--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Theater.

Greek drama--History and criticism--Congresses.

Greek drama.

Greek drama--Themes, motives--Congresses.

Black Sea Coast--Intellectual life--Congresses.

Black Sea Coast.

Black Sea Coast--In literature--Congresses.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C--Congresses.

Greece.

Black Sea Coast--Civilization--Congresses.

Black Sea Coast--Antiquities--Congresses.

Genre:

Literary criticism

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 551 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Nov 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-76216-5

1-316-76720-5

1-316-75662-9