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Zusatztext This book’s topic is an urgent one: how contemporary art links violence to antiquity as a way of legitimizing the portrayal – and sometimes celebration – of physical force. Informationen zum Autor Irene Berti is a Teaching Fellow at the Pädagogische Hochschule, Heidelberg, Germany, and a member of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Material Text Cultures, Materiality and Presence of writing in non typographic societies'. Maria G. Castello is a Research Fellow in the Dipartimento di Studi Storici at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy. She has published Le segrete stanze del potere. I comites consistoriani e l'imperatore tardoantico (2012). Carla Scilabra received her PhD from the University of Turin in 2013, with a thesis concerning the identity of pre-adult individuals in Ancient Greece. She has cooperated to excavations in Magna Graecia, Etruria and Piedmont and is a member of the team studying the material findings coming from the research conducted by the University of Turin at Locri Epizefiri and Costigliole Saluzzo.A collection of interdisciplinary papers dealing with the subject of violence and fear in the modern imagination about the ancient world. Zusammenfassung The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence – from war to slavery, rape and murder – in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well as the more usual media of film, literature and theatre. Violence, fury and the dread that they provoke are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. The dark side of antiquity, so distant from the ideal of purity and harmony that the classical heritage until recently usually called forth, has repeatedly struck the imagination of artists, writers and scholars across ages and cultures.A global assembly of contributors, from Europe to Brazil and from the US to New Zealand, consider historical and mythical violence in Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus and the 2010 TV series of the same name, in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator , in the work of Lars von Trier, and in Soviet ballet and the choreography of Martha Graham and Anita Berber. Representations of Roman warfare appear in videogames such as Ryse: Son of Rome and Total War , as well as recent comics, and examples from both these media are analysed in the volume. Finally, interviews with two artists offer insight into the ways in which practitioners understand and engage with the complex reception of these themes. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresList of Contributors AcknowledgementsNote on the Text 1 The Thrill of Ancient Violence: An Introduction (Irene Berti, Pädagogische Hochschule, Germany) Part I: Ancient Violence in Modern and Contemporary Painting 2 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 Theatre 4 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 Stage 8 Choreographies of Violence: Spartacus from the Soviet Ballet to the Global Stage (Zoa Alonso Fernández , Universidad Autonoma de Madri...
