Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

This volume considers the ancient Mediterranean Sea as an inspiring leitmotif of modern visual and performing arts.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*

With its clever thematic foci and its wide geographical scope, this book makes an outstanding addition to the series Imagines – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts. Readers of all levels will appreciate the strong thematic units and the harmonious blending of textual analysis with visual documentation and with evidence drawn from diverse performative contexts.
*Gonda Van Steen, Cassas Chair in Greek Studies, University of Florida, USA*

This book sets sail on a wide-ranging journey – from the ancient to the modern, and back again. Chapters navigate the sea of classical reception studies, demonstrating how ancient currents have continued to direct the course of the visual and performing arts. The result will be essential reading for anyone interested in the geopolitical and cultural bonds that connect modernity to its ancient Mediterranean heritage.
*Michael Squire, Reader in Classical Art, King's College London, UK*