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Greek and Roman spectators: Bodies, regimes of presence, modalities of attention.
VALETTE Emmanuelle, WYLER Stéphanie.

Greek and Roman spectators: Bodies, regimes of presence, modalities of attention.

Hermann / Aoroc CNRS PSL / Anhima
€45,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 29569
Format 21 x 27
Détails 350 p., illustrated, paperback.
Publication Paris, 2023
Etat Nine
ISBN 9791037022929
Reversing the perspective and looking at the spectators: this is the point of view adopted to question how the ancient Greeks and Romans, so fond of spectacles of all kinds—theatrical, sporting, religious, political—were themselves spectacular. How did they demonstrate their presence, their support, or their protest in the stands of the theater, the circus, or the amphitheater, during a procession or in the audience of a Christian sermon? To what extent were these manifestations expected, codified, or feared by the organizers? By lending or refusing their visual and multisensory attention to a performance, everyone played an active role in its success. To rediscover the bodies, emotions, and passions of these vanished spectators, the book explores texts, images, and the material traces they left behind, from Archaic Greece to Late Antiquity.
Reversing the perspective and looking at the spectators: this is the point of view adopted to question how the ancient Greeks and Romans, so fond of spectacles of all kinds—theatrical, sporting, religious, political—were themselves spectacular. How did they demonstrate their presence, their support, or their protest in the stands of the theater, the circus, or the amphitheater, during a procession or in the audience of a Christian sermon? To what extent were these manifestations expected, codified, or feared by the organizers? By lending or refusing their visual and multisensory attention to a performance, everyone played an active role in its success. To rediscover the bodies, emotions, and passions of these vanished spectators, the book explores texts, images, and the material traces they left behind, from Archaic Greece to Late Antiquity.