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The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts - Sailing in Troubled Waters (Hardcover)
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The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts - Sailing in Troubled Waters (Hardcover)
Series: IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
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When thinking about the Mediterranean, Fernand Braudel's haunting
words resound like an echo of the sea and its millenary history.
From Prehistory until today, the Mediterranean has been setting,
witness and protagonist of mythical adventures, of encounters with
the Other, of battles and the rise and fall of cultures and
empires, of the destinies of humans. Braudel's appeal for a long
duree history of the Mediterranean challenged traditional views
that often present it as a sea fragmented and divided through
periods. This volume proposes a journey into the bright and dark
sides of the ancient Mediterranean through the kaleidoscopic gaze
of artists who from the Renaissance to the 21st century have been
inspired by its myths and history. The view of those who imagined
and recreated the past of the sea has largely contributed to the
shaping of modern cultures which are inexorably rooted and embedded
in Mediterranean traditions. The contributions look at modern
visual reinterpretations of ancient myths, fiction and history and
pay particular attention to the theme of sea travel and travellers,
which since Homer's Odyssey has become the epitome of the discovery
of new worlds, of cultural exchanges and a metaphor of personal
developments and metamorphoses.
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