LEADER 03389nam 2200517 450 001 9910816169503321 005 20230801231422.0 010 $a1-4725-3769-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000433397 035 $a(EBL)1426798 035 $a(OCoLC)861538614 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1426798 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000433397 100 $a20141020h20122007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn|nnn||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSilent eloquence $eLucian and Pantomime dancing /$fIsmene Lada-Ricnards 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2012. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (240 pages) 225 1 $aClassical literature and society 300 $aFirst published in 2007 by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aIntroduction: Setting the Scene -- 1. Pantomime Dancing Through the Centuries -- 2. Pantomime and Other Entertainments: Cross-Fertilisations and Affiliations -- 3. 'Technologies' of the Body: The Pantomime's Art -- 4. Pantomimes and their Body 'Politic' -- 5. Pantomimes and their Body Dangerous -- 6. Emancipating Pantomime: Lycinus' Speech in Lucian's On the Dance -- 7. Lucian's On the Dance or The Sophist's Pantomime -- 8. Pantomime, the Intellectual's Equal? The Genre Through the Eyes of the Cultural E?lites -- 327 $a9. A 'Margin of Mess': Pantomime and the Strategies of E?lite Cultural Self-definition -- 10. Dancing on the Brink: The 'Hybrid' Discourse of Pantomime Dancing -- 11. Who is Afraid of Pantomime Dancers? -- 12. Controlling Theatre in the Imperial East: the Sophist and the Pantomime -- Epilogue; Postscript: The Afterlife of Ancient Pantomime and Lucian's On the Dance. 330 $aOne of the greatest aesthetic attractions in the ancient world was pantomime dancing, a ballet-style entertainment in which a silent, solo dancer incarnated a series of mythological characters to the accompaniment of music and sung narrative. Looking at a multitude of texts and particularly Lucian's "On the Dance", a dialogue written at the height of pantomime's popularity, this innovative cultural study of the genre offers a radical reassessment of its importance in the symbolic economy of imperial and later antiquity. Rather than being trivial or lowbrow, pantomime was thoroughly enmeshed in wider social discourses on morality and sexuality, gender and desire and a key player in the fierce battles about education and culture that raged in the ancient world. A close reading of primary sources, judiciously interlaced with a wealth of interdisciplinary perspectives, makes this challenging book essential for anyone interested in the performance culture of the Greek and Roman world. 410 0$aClassical literature and society. 606 $aDance$xHistory$yEarly works to 1800 606 $aPantomime$zGreece$xHistory 606 $aPantomime$zRome$xHistory 615 0$aDance$xHistory 615 0$aPantomime$xHistory. 615 0$aPantomime$xHistory. 676 $a792.30938 700 $aLada-Richards$b Ismene$0190126 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAuAdUSA 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816169503321 996 $aSilent eloquence$91022428 997 $aUNINA