Eva Palmer Sikelianos (eBook)

A Life in Ruins

Artemis Leontis (Autor)

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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18790-7 (ISBN)

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Artemis Leontis is professor of modern Greek and chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Topographies of Hellenism and the coeditor of 'What These Ithakas Mean...': Readings in Cavafy, among other books. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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The first biography of a visionary twentieth-century American performer who devoted her life to the revival of ancient Greek cultureThis is the first biography to tell the fascinating story of Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), an American actor, director, composer, and weaver best known for reviving the Delphic Festivals. Yet, as Artemis Leontis reveals, Palmer's most spectacular performance was her daily revival of ancient Greek life. For almost half a century, dressed in handmade Greek tunics and sandals, she sought to make modern life freer and more beautiful through a creative engagement with the ancients. Along the way, she crossed paths with other seminal modern artists such as Natalie Clifford Barney, Renee Vivien, Isadora Duncan, Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Richard Strauss, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, and Ted Shawn.Brilliant and gorgeous, with floor-length auburn hair, Palmer was a wealthy New York debutante who studied Greek at Bryn Mawr College before turning her back on conventional society to live a lesbian life in Paris. She later followed Raymond Duncan (brother of Isadora) and his wife to Greece and married the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos in 1907. With single-minded purpose, Palmer re-created ancient art forms, staging Greek tragedy with her own choreography, costumes, and even music. Having exhausted her inheritance, she returned to the United States in 1933, was blacklisted for criticizing American imperialism during the Cold War, and was barred from returning to Greece until just before her death.Drawing on hundreds of newly discovered letters and featuring many previously unpublished photographs, this biography vividly re-creates the unforgettable story of a remarkable nonconformist whom one contemporary described as "e;the only ancient Greek I ever knew."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.3.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 57 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aeschylus • Aestheticism • Alice Pike Barney • americans • Anachronism • ancient art • Ancient Greece • Ancient Greek • ancient Greek life • ancient Greek models • Angelos Sikelianos • archaeology • Archaic Greece • Autobiography • Bayreuth • Benaki Museum • Biography • Bryn Mawr College • Byzantine music • Classicism • classics • Clothing • Colette • conventional society • Costume • Creative Work • cultural biography • Culture of Greece • curator • Daily Life • Delphic Festivals • Dithyramb • Drama • edith hamilton • Eleni Sikelianos • Epidaurus • Eva Palmer Sikelianos • Evion Panharmonium • Federal Theatre Project • french fashion • Greece • Greek art • Greek chorus • Greek civil war • Greek Culture • Greek Drama • Greek dress • Greek Mythology • Greek poetry • Greek prototype • Greeks • greek society • Greek tragedy • Hellenism • Isadora Duncan • Jews • Katharevousa • Khorshed Naoroji • Konstantinos Psachos • Kostis Palamas • Lecture • Lesbian • Literature • Mariano Fortuny (designer) • Marshall Plan • Miss Porter's School • Modern Greek • Modernity • Mount Parnassus • Mrs. • musical composition • Music Is • Music of Greece • Mycenae • narrative • Natalie Clifford Barney • newspaper • Nikos Kazantzakis • Nonconformist • open letter • Orientalism • Ottoman Empire • Paler Sikelianos • Paris • Penelope Sikelianos • Philosopher • Photographs • Playwright • Poetry • Political Action • Politician • Prometheus Bound • Prose • Provincetown Players • Publication • Raymond Duncan • residence • Richard Strauss • Romanticism • Ruth St. Denis • Sappho • Sarah Bernhardt • Seminar • Singing • smith college • Sophocles • suburb • Superiority (short story) • Susan Glaspell • Ted Shawn • Theatre of ancient Greece • The Bacchae • The New York Times • The Other Hand • The Persians • The Suppliants (Aeschylus) • To Life • tunic • two women • Upward Panic • Victorian Era • weaving • Western wear • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18790-8 / 0691187908
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18790-7 / 9780691187907