Aspects of Roman Dance Culture
Religious Cults, Theatrical Entertainments, Metaphorical Appropriations
Edited by Karin Schlapbach
Paperback (Published)
(October 2022)
ISBN: 9783515133234
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $105.00
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The fourteen chapters of this book examine Roman dance by looking at its role in Roman religion, by following it into the theatre and the banquet hall, and by tracing its (metaphorical) presence in a variety of literary contexts, including rhetorical treatises, biography, and lyric poetry. These different approaches, which draw on literary texts, inscriptions, documentary papyri, the visual record, and modern reperformances, converge in illustrating a rich and vibrant dance culture which prided itself on indigenous dances no less than on its capacity to absorb, transform, or revive the dance traditions of their Etruscan or Greek neighbours. Dance was a cultural practice which was able to affirm Romanness, for instance in the case of the Salian priests, but also to raise the question of what was Roman in the first place, for instance when the originally Greek pantomime was embraced by Augustus and came to be known as “Italian style of dancing”. Together the fourteen case studies offer fresh perspectives on an underexplored topic, shedding light on the manifold contexts, functions, practitioners, and appreciations of Roman dance.
Karin Schlapbach (PhD Zurich, 2001) is a professor of Latin language and literature at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). From 2007–2016 she was a professor of classics at the University of Ottawa (ON). Her research focuses on the literature of the imperial period and late antiquity, and especially on ancient Greek and Roman dance. Her current research examines how the physical and inner states of motion and rest inform the production of literary texts.
- Edited by Karin Schlapbach
Other Titles in this Series
Sertorius, the Exiles of the Sullan Regime and the Provinces of the Empire
Legitimacy, Morality and Imperial Discourse in the 70s BCE
Religiöses in der politischen Argumentation der späten römischen Republik
Ciceros Erste Catilinarische Rede – eine Fallstudie
Language and Power in the Roman Empire and Early India
Hierarchy, Ambiguity, and the Art of Reading the Signs in Cosmopolitan Cultures
Vestigia
Miscellanea di studi storico-religiosi in onore di Filippo Coarelli nel suo 80° anniversario
Tutela urbis
Il significato e la concezione della divinità tutelare cittadina nella religione romana
Religiöse Geheimniskommunikation in der Mittleren und Späten Römischen Republik
Separatheit, gesellschaftliche Öffentlichkeit und zivisches Ordnungshandeln
Religions orientales – culti misterici
Neue Perspektiven - nouvelles perspectives - prospettive nuove. Herausgegeben im Rahmen des trilateralen Projektes "Les religions orientales dans le monde greco-romain"
Gottesbild und Wahrnehmung
Studien zu Ambivalenzen früher griechischer Götterdarstellungen (ca. 800 v.Chr. – ca. 400 v.Chr.)
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