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oapen-20.500.12657-584752023-02-01T09:32:57Z Aspects of Roman Dance Culture Schlapbach, Karin Performing Arts Dance History & Criticism bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AS Dance & other performing arts The fourteen chapters of this e-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. 2022-09-21T05:31:57Z 2022-09-21T05:31:57Z 2022 book 9783515133258 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58475 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf Franz Steiner Verlag Franz Steiner Verlag 10.25162/9783515133258 10.25162/9783515133258 70604e5f-7706-4b1d-a15e-c9b6bb80fb28 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783515133258 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Franz Steiner Verlag Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The fourteen chapters of this e-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.
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