Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture Around the Black Sea

Description

This is the first study of ancient theatre and performance around the coasts of the Black Sea. It brings together key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars on theatre and the Black Sea, from a wide range of disciplines, especially archaeology, drama and history. In that way the wealth of material found around these great coasts is brought together with the best methodology in all fields of study. This landmark book broadens the whole concept and range of theatre outside Athens. It shows ways in which the colonial world of the Black Sea may be compared importantly with Southern Italy and Sicily in terms of theatre and performance. At the same time, it shows too how the Black Sea world itself can be better understood through a focus on the development of theatre and performance there, both among Greeks and among their local neighbours.

David Braund is Emeritus Professor of Black Sea and Mediterranean History at the University of Exeter, and has spent over thirty years working on the Black Sea region. His books include Georgia in Antiquity (1994) and Greek Religion and Cults in the Black Sea Region (Cambridge, 2018). Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College London. She has published twenty-five books on ancient Greek and Roman culture and their continuing presence since the Renaissance, with her most recent publications including Introducing the Ancient Greeks (2015) and Aristotle's Way (2018). Rosie Wyles is Lecturer in Classical History and Literature at the University of Kent. Her work focuses on Greek drama, its staging and its receptions, and she is the author of Costume in Greek Tragedy (2011).