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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Classical literature and society |
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Classical literature and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Setting the Scene; 1. Pantomime Dancing Through the Centuries; 2. Pantomime and Other Entertainments: Cross-Fertilisations and Affiliations; 3. 'Technologies' of the Body: The Pantomime's Art; 4. Pantomimes and their Body 'Politic'; 5. Pantomimes and their Body Dangerous; 6. Emancipating Pantomime: Lycinus' Speech in Lucian's On the Dance; 7. Lucian's On the Dance or The Sophist's Pantomime; 8. Pantomime, the Intellectual's Equal? The Genre Through the Eyes of the Cultural Élites |
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9. A 'Margin of Mess': Pantomime and the Strategies of Élite Cultural Self-definition10. Dancing on the Brink: The 'Hybrid' Discourse of Pantomime Dancing; 11. Who is Afraid of Pantomime Dancers?; 12. Controlling Theatre in the Imperial East: the Sophist and the Pantomime; Epilogue; Postscript: The Afterlife of Ancient Pantomime and Lucian's On the Dance; Notes; Bibliography; Index Locorum; A; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; S; T; V; X; Z; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X |
| Summary |
One of the greatest aesthetic attractions in the ancient world was pantomime dancing, a ballet-style entertainment in which a silent, solo dancer incarnated a series of mythological characters to the accompaniment of music and sung narrative. Looking at a multitude of texts and particularly Lucian's ""On the Dance"", a dialogue written at the height of pantomime's popularity, this innovative cultural study of the genre offers a radical reassessment of its importance in the symbolic economy of imperial and later antiquity. Rather than being trivial or lowbrow, pantomime was thoroughly enmeshed |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lucian, of Samosata. De saltatione.
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Lucianus Samosatensis 120-180 De saltatione gnd |
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Lucianus Samosatensis. swd |
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De saltatione (Lucian, of Samosata) fast (OCoLC)fst01780415 |
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Dance -- History -- Early works to 1800
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Pantomime -- Greece -- History
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Pantomime -- Rome -- History
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Social & cultural history.
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History -- Ancient -- General.
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History -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Performing Arts -- Dance -- General.
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Dance.
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Pantomime.
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Antike
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Pantomime
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Pantomimus
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Tanz
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Dans -- antiken.
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Pantomimteater -- antiken.
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Greece.
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Rome (Empire)
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Griechenland Altertum
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Römisches Reich
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Early works.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472537690 |
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1472537696 |
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9781472537706 |
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147253770X |
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