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Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination: The Fear and the Fury (IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts) by Irene Berti; Maria G. Castello; Carla Scilabra (editors) is a art available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ancient Violence in the Modern Imagination: The Fear and the Fury (IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts) about?
The collected essays in this volume focus on the presentation, representation and interpretation of ancient violence – from war to slavery, rape and murder – in the modern visual and performing arts, with special attention to videogames and dance as well as the more usual media of film, literature and theatre. Violence, fury and the dread that they provoke are factors that appear frequently in the ancient sources. The dark side of antiquity, so distant from the ideal of purity and harmony that t
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- Author
- Irene Berti; Maria G. Castello; Carla Scilabra (editors)
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350195035
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Games, History, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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