Del i serien IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts

Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts

Sailing in Troubled Waters

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel’s haunting words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history. From Prehistory until today, the Mediterranean has been setting, witness and protagonist of mythical adventures, of encounters with the Other, of battles and the rise and fall of cultures and empires, of the destinies of humans. Braudel’s appeal for a long durée history of the Mediterranean challenged traditional views that often present it as a sea fragmented and divided through periods.This volume proposes a journey into the bright and dark sides of the ancient Mediterranean through the kaleidoscopic gaze of artists who from the Renaissance to the 21st century have been inspired by its myths and history. The view of those who imagined and recreated the past of the sea has largely contributed to the shaping of modern cultures which are inexorably rooted and embedded in Mediterranean traditions. The contributions look at modern visual reinterpretations of ancient myths, fiction and history and pay particular attention to the theme of sea travel and travellers, which since Homer's Odyssey has become the epitome of the discovery of new worlds, of cultural exchanges and a metaphor of personal developments and metamorphoses.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-12-14
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt692 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
Antal sidor344
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474298599

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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