Table of Contents
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Rosario Rovira Guardiola, The British Museum, UK
The Mediterranean as a Geographical Space
1. Roman Adriatic ports and the antiquarian tradition
Federico Ugolini
2. Chronotopes of Hellenic antiquity: The Strait of Reggio and Messina in documents from the Grand Tour era
Marco Benoît Carbone
3. The Eternal Words of the Latin Sea: Fedra by Mur Oti
Francisco Salvador Ventura, Universidad de Granada, Spain
Living and Dying in Troubled Waters
4. Quod mare non novit, quae nescit Ariona tellus? (Ov. Fast. II,83)
Dorit Engster, University of Göttingen, Germany
5. Ulysses in the cinema: the example of Nostos, il ritorno (Franco Piavoli, Italy 1990)
Óscar Lapeña Marchena, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
6. A sea of metal plates: images of the Mediterranean from the XVIIIth century until post-modern theatre
Sotera Fornaro, Università di Sassari, Italy
7. Sailors on Board, Heroes en Route. From the Aegean World to Modern Stage
Erika Notti and Martina Treu, Università IULM – Milano, Italy
A Personal Sea. The Artist and the Sea
8. Ancient Seas in Modern Opera: Sea Images and Mediterranean Myths in Rihm's Dionysos
Jesús Carruesco, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain and Montserrat Reig, Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, Tarragona, Spain
9. A mirror to see your soul. The exile of Ovid in Eugene Delacroix's painting
Rosario Rovira Guardiola, The British Museum, UK
10. Cinematic Romans and the Mediterrranean Sea
Cecilia Ricci, Università degli Studi del Molise, Italy
Sea Politics
11. Changing their sky, not their soul. Lawrence Alma-Tadema's vision of the ancient Mediterranean
Quentin Broughall, Independent scholar
12. The image of Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Modern Spanish History and Culture
Antonio Duplá Ansuategui, Univ. País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain
13. Screening the Battle of Actium. Naval Victory, Erotic Tragedy, and the Birth of an Empire
Monica Silveira Cyrino, University of New Mexico, USA
Contemporary Uses of the Classical Mediterranean
14. Troubled Waters: Performative imaginary in the Project PI – Pequena Infância
Sofia de Carvalho, Elisabete Cação and Ana Seiça Carvalho, University of Coimbra – CECH, Portugal
Annex
15. Nem Gregos nem Troianos
José Bandeira
Bibliography
Index