Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination

Irene Berti is a Teaching Fellow at the Pädagogische Hochschule, Heidelberg, Germany.Maria G. Castello is Associate Professor in the Dipartimento di Studi Storici at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy.Carla Scilabra is an independent scholar, Italy.

• List of FiguresList of Contributors AcknowledgementsNote on the Text1 The Thrill of Ancient Violence: An Introduction (Irene Berti, Pädagogische Hochschule, Germany)Part I: Ancient Violence in Modern and Contemporary Painting2 Ancient War and Modern Art: Some Remarks on Historical Painting from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Antonio Duplá, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain) 3 Violence to Valour: Visualizing Thais of Athens (Alex McAuley, Cardiff University, UK)Part II: Embodying Ancient and Modern Violence in Cinema and in Theatre4 Screening the Face of Roman Battle: Violence Through the Eyes of Soldiers in Film (Oskar Aguado, Cantabrana, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain)5 Performing Violence and War Trauma: Ajax on the Silver Screen (Anastasia Bakogianni, Massey University of New Zealand)6 External and Internal Violence Within the Myth of Iphigenia: Staging Myth Today (Malgorzata Budzowska, University of Lodz, Poland)7 Kseni, the Foreigner: A Brazilian Medea in Action (Maria Cecilia de Miranda Nogueira Coelho, UFMG, Minas Gerais, Brazil)Part III: Dancing Violence on the Ballet Stage8 Choreographies of Violence: Spartacus from the Soviet Ballet to the Global Stage (Zoa Alonso Fernández, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)9 Iocaste’s Daughters in Modernity: Anita Berber and Valeska Gert (Nicole Haitzinger, University of Salzburg, Austria)10 Dark Territories of Soul: Martha Graham’s Clytemnestra (Ainize González García, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)Part IV: Violent Antiquity in Video Games and Comics11 Si vis ludum para bellum: Violence and War as the Predominant Language of Antiquity in Video Games (David Serrano Lozano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)12 Waging TOTAL WAR Playing ATTILA: A Video Game’s Take on the Migration Period (Fabian Schulz, University of Tübingen, Germany) 13 Sexy Gory Rome: Juxtapositions of Sex and Violence in Comic Book Representations of Ancient Rome (Luis Unceta Gómez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)14 Archimedes and the War in Hitoshi Iwaki’s Eureka (Giuseppe Galeani, Università degli Studi di Macerata, Italy)Part V: Making Reception: Ancient Violence and Living History15 From Ancient Violence to Modern Celebration: Complex Receptions of an Ancient Conquest Wars in Las Guerras Cántabras Festival (Jonatan Pérez Mostazo, Independent Scholar, Spain)16 Drawing Reception (Maria Goretti Castello, University of Turin, Italy and Fabio Ruotolo, International School of Comics, Torino, Italy)17 Re-enacting Soldiers and Dressing Roman Women: An Interview with Danielle Fiore (Carla Scilabra, University of Turin, Italy and Danielle Fiore, University of Turin, Italy) Notes Bibliography Index

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