Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece by Eleni Fournaraki Zinon Papakonstantinou

Author:Eleni Fournaraki, Zinon Papakonstantinou [Eleni Fournaraki, Zinon Papakonstantinou]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317979722
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2014-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

‘Resurrecting’ Ancient Bodies: The Tragic Chorus in Prometheus Bound and Suppliant Women at the Delphic Festivals in 1927 and 1930

Antonis Glytzouris

This essay aims at a systematic investigation of theatre performances of Prometheus Bound and Suppliant Women at the Delphic Festivals (1927, 1930) with particular reference to the art of dance. It attempts to analyse the artistic and ideological content of the tragic chorus such as conceived and implemented by Eva Palmer-Sikelianos. The article initially attempts to analyse her theoretical concerns and then attempts a detailed presentation of the Delphic performances. The revival of the tragic dance acquired an aura of ‘resurrection’, in the sense that it embodied a basic ideological component: the forging of Modern Greek identity upon alleged hereditary relations of ‘affinity’ between the ancient Greece and the Modern Greek folk culture. In order to illuminate this objective, the essay also examines: (a) similar approaches attempted in the Modern Greek stage from the end of the nineteenth century, (b) the Neo-Romantic roots of the initiative and (c) instances of American lovers of ancient and traditional Greece in the first quarter of the twentieth century.

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