Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea

Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around the Black Sea
Author: David Braund
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2019-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107170591

Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.

The Coming Race

The Coming Race
Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 530
Release: 1878
Genre: Civilization, Subterranean
ISBN:

Mixanthrôpoi

Mixanthrôpoi
Author: Emma Aston
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Liège
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2017-10-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2821895631

Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – mixanthropic – form in the representation and visual imagination of Greek gods and goddesses, and of its significance with regard to divine character and function. What did it mean to depict deities in a form so strongly associated in the ancient imagination with monstrous adversaries? How did iconography, myth and ritual interact in particular sites of worship? Drawing together literary and visual material, this study establishes the themes dominant in the worship of divine mixanthropes, and argues that, so far from being insignificant curiosities, they make possible a greater understanding of the fabric of ancient religious practice, in particular the tense and challenging relationship between divinity and visual representation.

The Cambridge Companion to Sappho

The Cambridge Companion to Sappho
Author: P. J. Finglass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107189055

A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.