Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea

ISBN-13: 9781107170599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 318 str.

David Braund; Edith Hall; Rosie Wyles

Opis

Combines archaeological evidence with literary analysis of key plays linked to the region to broaden the study of theatre outside fifth-century BCE Athens and allow comparison with the similarly colonial world of Southern Italy. Also offers a new route into Black Sea Greek and non-Greek culture(s) on the colonial periphery.

Spis treści

Part I. Approaches: 1. Introduction – embarking on a voyage around Black Sea theatre David Braund; 2. The spread of Greek theatre to the West – and to the North-East? Oliver Taplin; 3. The northward advance of Greek horizons Stephanie West; Part II. Places: 4. The tragedians of Heraclea and comedians of Sinope Edith Hall; 5. The Phanagoria Chous – comic art in miniature in a luxury tomb in the Cimmerian Bosporus Jeffrey Rusten; 6. Theatre and performance in the Bosporan Kingdom David Braund; 7. Ancient theatre in Tauric Chersonesus Sergey Saprykin; 8. Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea Valeriya Bylkova; 9. Celebrating Dionysos in Istros and Tomis – theatrical manifestations and artistic life in two Ionian cities of the Black Sea Madalina Dana; 10. Ancient theatres and theatre-art of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and Thracian Hinterland Alexander Minchev; Part III. Plays: 11. Space, place and the metallurgical imagination of the Prometheus trilogy Emmanuela Bakola; 12. Fragmentary Greek tragedies set in the Black Sea Rosie Wyles; 13. Black Sea back story – Euripides' Medea Edith Hall; 14. Mind-games in the Crimea – Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris Felix Budelmann; 15. Visualising Euripides' Tauric Temple of the Maiden Goddess Edith Hall; Part IV. Performative Presences: 16. Music and performance among Greeks and Scythians Marina Vakhtina; 17. A new mask and musical instruments from the Eastern Bosporus Vladimir Bochkovoy, David Braund, Roman Mimokhodov and Nikolay Sudarev; 18. The Cult of Dionysus in Ancient Georgia Manana Odisheli; 19. Paratheatrical performances in the Bosporan Kingdom – the evidence of terracotta figurine Maya Muratov; 20. Historiography and theatre: the tragedy of Scythian King Skyles David Braund; 21. 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.