Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts

Rosario Rovira Guardiola works in the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum, UK. She was Project Curator for the exhibition Hadrian: Empire and Conflict and is now part of the project Pantanello: Unearthing the History of Hadrian's Villa.

• List of ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroductionRosario Rovira Guardiola, The British Museum, UKThe Mediterranean as a Geographical Space1. Roman Adriatic ports and the antiquarian traditionFederico Ugolini2. Chronotopes of Hellenic antiquity: The Strait of Reggio and Messina in documents from the Grand Tour eraMarco Benoît Carbone3. The Eternal Words of the Latin Sea: Fedra by Mur OtiFrancisco Salvador Ventura, Universidad de Granada, SpainLiving and Dying in Troubled Waters4. Quod mare non novit, quae nescit Ariona tellus? (Ov. Fast. II,83)Dorit Engster, University of Göttingen, Germany5. Ulysses in the cinema: the example of Nostos, il ritorno (Franco Piavoli, Italy 1990)Óscar Lapeña Marchena, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain6. A sea of metal plates: images of the Mediterranean from the XVIIIth century until post-modern theatreSotera Fornaro, Università di Sassari, Italy7. Sailors on Board, Heroes en Route. From the Aegean World to Modern StageErika Notti and Martina Treu, Università IULM – Milano, ItalyA Personal Sea. The Artist and the Sea8. Ancient Seas in Modern Opera: Sea Images and Mediterranean Myths in Rihm’s DionysosJesús Carruesco, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain and Montserrat Reig, Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, Tarragona, Spain9. A mirror to see your soul. The exile of Ovid in Eugene Delacroix's paintingRosario Rovira Guardiola, The British Museum, UK10. Cinematic Romans and the Mediterrranean SeaCecilia Ricci, Università degli Studi del Molise, ItalySea Politics11. Changing their sky, not their soul. Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s vision of the ancient MediterraneanQuentin Broughall, Independent scholar12. The image of Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Modern Spanish History and CultureAntonio Duplá Ansuategui, Univ. País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain13. Screening the Battle of Actium. Naval Victory, Erotic Tragedy, and the Birth of an EmpireMonica Silveira Cyrino, University of New Mexico, USAContemporary Uses of the Classical Mediterranean14. Troubled Waters: Performative imaginary in the Project PI – Pequena InfânciaSofia de Carvalho, Elisabete Cação and Ana Seiça Carvalho, University of Coimbra – CECH, PortugalAnnex15. Nem Gregos nem TroianosJosé BandeiraBibliographyIndex

I do not hesitate to recommend the book warmly to anyone interested in up-to-date knowledge about a broad range of topics related to the representation of ancient cultural tradition in contemporary visual and performing arts.