The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts (eBook, ePUB)

Sailing in Troubled Waters
Redaktion: Guardiola, Rosario Rovira

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474298605
• Artikelnr.: 50217270

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction Rosario Rovira Guardiola
The British Museum
UK The Mediterranean as a Geographical Space 1. Roman Adriatic ports and the antiquarian tradition Federico Ugolini 2. Chronotopes of Hellenic antiquity: The Strait of Reggio and Messina in documents from the Grand Tour era Marco Benoît Carbone 3. The Eternal Words of the Latin Sea: Fedra by Mur Oti Francisco Salvador Ventura
Universidad de Granada
Spain Living and Dying in Troubled Waters 4. Quod mare non novit
quae nescit Ariona tellus? (Ov. Fast. II
83) Dorit Engster
University of Göttingen
Germany 5. Ulysses in the cinema: the example of Nostos
il ritorno (Franco Piavoli
Italy 1990) Óscar Lapeña Marchena
Universidad de Cádiz
Spain 6. A sea of metal plates: images of the Mediterranean from the XVIIIth century until post-modern theatre Sotera Fornaro
Università di Sassari
Italy 7. Sailors on Board
Heroes en Route. From the Aegean World to Modern Stage Erika Notti and Martina Treu
Università IULM - Milano
Italy A Personal Sea. The Artist and the Sea 8. Ancient Seas in Modern Opera: Sea Images and Mediterranean Myths in Rihm's Dionysos Jesús Carruesco
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Tarragona
Spain and Montserrat Reig
Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology
Tarragona
Spain 9. A mirror to see your soul. The exile of Ovid in Eugene Delacroix's painting Rosario Rovira Guardiola
The British Museum
UK 10. Cinematic Romans and the Mediterrranean Sea Cecilia Ricci
Università degli Studi del Molise
Italy Sea Politics 11. Changing their sky
not their soul. Lawrence Alma-Tadema's vision of the ancient Mediterranean Quentin Broughall
Independent scholar 12. The image of Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Modern Spanish History and Culture Antonio Duplá Ansuategui
Univ. País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Spain 13. Screening the Battle of Actium. Naval Victory
Erotic Tragedy
and the Birth of an Empire Monica Silveira Cyrino
University of New Mexico
USA Contemporary Uses of the Classical Mediterranean 14. Troubled Waters: Performative imaginary in the Project PI - Pequena Infância Sofia de Carvalho
Elisabete Cação and Ana Seiça Carvalho
University of Coimbra - CECH
Portugal Annex 15. Nem Gregos nem Troianos José Bandeira Bibliography Index