New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

ISBN: 9780199232536 出版年：2009 页码：500 Oxford University Press

Introduction: Pantomime: a lost chord of ancient culture I. THE PANTOMIME DANCER AND HIS WORLD 1. Inside the mask: pantomime from the performers' perspective 2. The symbolism of costume in ancient pantomime 3. Pantomime performance and figured scenes on Roman sarcophagi 4. Pantomime actresses in Latin inscriptions 5. 'Mime' and 'pantomime': some problematic texts II. PANTOMIME LIBRETTI 6. The pantomime dancer and his libretto 7. Roman pantomime libretti and their Greek themes: the role of Augustus in the Romanization of the Greek classics 8. Virgil on the popular stage 9. 'et mea sunt populo saltata poemata saepe' (Tristia 2.519): Ovid and the pantomime 10. Seneca and pantomime 11. The influence of pantomime on Seneca's tragedies 12. Is the 'Barcelona Alcestis' a Latin pantomime libretto? III. THE IDEA OF THE PANTOMIME DANCER 13. Was pantomime 'good to think with' in the ancient world? 14. Lucian, rhetoric, and the protreptic genre 15. The metamorphosis of pantomime: Apuleius' Judgement of Paris (Met. 10.30-34) 16. Ancient pantomime and the rise of ballet Appendix: Jacob of Sarugh's Syriac Homilies on the theatre: an English translation