Integrative teaching
Caterina Maderna
Exercises
Examination procedure
Seminars
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of the history of Greek and Roman Art. The class is mainly devoted to PhD students.
Syllabus
The course focuses on ancient theatre, as an architectural invention and for its visual/iconographic perspective; it covers a variety of cases, spanning from Greece, to Magna Graecia and Sicily, to Rome, from the first monumental evidence to the places for spectacles in Rome and in Roman provinces.
Advanced seminars will be held by Prof.ssa Caterina Maderna (Heidelberg).
Bibliographical references
Bieber, M. 1961. The History of the Greek and Roman Theater. 2nd ed. Princeton
Bosher, K., ed. 2012. Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy. Cambridge
Csapo, E. and M.C. Miller, eds. 2007. The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama. Cambridge
Dearden, C.W. 1988. "Phlyax comedy in Magna Grecia: A Reassessment." In Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster, edited by J.N. Betts, J.T. Hooker, J.R. Green, 34-41. Bristol
Foley, H.P. 2000. "The comic body in Greek Art and Drama." In Not the Classical Ideal. Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art, edited by B. Cohen, 275-311- Leiden
Green, J.R. 1994. Theatre in Ancient Greek Society. London-New York
Heydemann, H. 1886. "Die Phlyakendarstellungen der bemalten Vasen." JdI 1, 260-313
Hughes, A. 2003. "Comedy in Paestan vase painting." Oxford Journal of Archaeology 22.3, 281-301
Pickard‐Cambridge, A.W. 1968. The Dramatic Festivals of Athens, 2nd ed. Oxford
Séchan, L. 1926. Études sur la tragédie grecque dans ses rapports avec la céramique. Paris
Taplin, O. 1993. Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Tragedy through Vase‐Painting. Oxford
Taplin, O. 2007. Pots and Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase‐Paintings of the Fourth Century. Los Angeles
Townsend, R.F. 1986. “The Fourth‐Century Skene of the Theater of Dionysos at Athens.” Hesperia, 55: 421–438
Webster, T.B.L. 1948. "South Italian Vases and Attic Drama." CQ 42, 15-27.